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SIR EDWARD DYER (d. 1607)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 755 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDWARD See also:DYER (d. 1607)  , See also:English courtier and poet, son of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Dyer, Kt., was See also:born at Sharpham See also:Park, See also:Somersetshire . He was educated, according to See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, either at Balliol See also:College or at Broadgates See also:Hall, See also:Oxford . He See also:left the university without taking a degree, and after some See also:time spent abroad appeared at See also:Queen . See also:Elizabeth's See also:court . His first See also:patron was the See also:earl of See also:Leicester, who seems to have thought of putting him forward as a See also:rival to Sir See also:Christopher See also:Hatton in the queen's favour . He is mentioned by See also:Gabriel See also:Harvey with See also:Sidney as one of the ornaments of the court . Sidney in his will desired that his books should be divided between See also:Fulke Greville (See also:Lord See also:Brooke) and Dyer . He was employed by Elizabeth on a See also:mission (1584) to the See also:Low Countries, and in 1589 was sent to See also:Denmark . In a See also:commission to inquire into manors unjustly alienated from the See also:crown in the See also:west See also:country he did not altogether please the queen, but he received a See also:grant of some forfeited lands in See also:Somerset in 1588 . He was knighted and made See also:chancellor of the See also:order of the Garter in 1596 . See also:William See also:Oldys says of him that he " would not stoop to fawn," and some of his verses seem to show that the exigencies of See also:life at court oppressed him . He was buried at St Saviour's, See also:Southwark, on the lrth of May 1607 .

Wood says that many esteemed him to be a Rosicrucian, and that he was a See also:

firm believer in See also:alchemy . He had a See also:great reputation as a poet among his contemporaries, but very little of his See also:work has survived . See also:Puttenham in the Arte of English Poesie speaks of " Maister See also:Edward Dyar, for Elegie most sweete, solempne, and of high conceit." One of the poems universally accepted as his is " My Mynde to me a kingdome is." Among the poems in See also:England's See also:Helicon (1600), signed S.E.D., and included in Dr A . B . See also:Grosart's collection of Dyer's See also:works (Miscellanies of the See also:Fuller Worthies Library, vol. iv., 1876) is the charming See also:pastoral " My Phillis hath the morninge sunne," but this comes from the Phillis of Thomas See also:Lodge . Grosart also prints a See also:prose See also:tract entitled The Prayse of Nothing (1585) . The See also:Size Idillia from See also:Theocritus, reckoned by J . P . See also:Collier among Dyer's works, were dedicated to, not written by, him .

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