Sir John Davies was born at Tisbury, Wiltshire, where he was christened on April 16, 1569, third son of Mary and of John. His father died when he was ten. In 1580 he was sent to school at Winchester. He entered The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1585. Leaving Oxford a year and a half later, he proceeded to read law first at the New Inn, and then at the Middle Temple, 1588 onwards. The Epigrammes were written perhaps around 1590, the year Davies' mother passed away.

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Thys was the Picture of her wondrous thought,
But who can wonder that her thought was so,
Sith Vulcan King of Fire, that Mirrour wrought,
(Who things to come, present, and past doth know)
And there did represent in lively show
Our glorious English Courts divine Image,
As it should be in this our *golden age.*

(I added the asterisks... )

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