Sir John Davies
Edward Farr, in Select Poetry chiefly devotional of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1845) xvii.
SIR JOHN DAVIES, an eminent lawyer, was born in 1570, and died in 1626. His "Nosce Teipsum, or The Soul of Man and the Immortality thereof," from which the extracts in this volume are taken, first appeared in 1599, and it was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.