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JOHN WEEVER (1576-1632)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 467 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:WEEVER (1576-1632)  , See also:English poet and See also:antiquary, a native of See also:Lancashire, was See also:born in 1576 . He was educated at Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge; where he resided for about four years from 1594, but he took no degree . In 1599 he published Epigrammes in the See also:Oldest Cut and Newest See also:Fashion, containing a See also:sonnet on See also:Shakespeare, and epigrams on See also:Samuel See also:Daniel, See also:Michael See also:Drayton, See also:Ben See also:Jonson, See also:William See also:Warner and See also:Christopher See also:Middleton, all of which are valuable to the See also:literary historian . In 16o1 he published The See also:Mirror of Martyrs or The See also:Life and See also:Death of . . . See also:Sir See also:John Oldcastie, which he calls in his See also:preface the " first trew See also:Oldcastle," perhaps on See also:account of the fact that Shakespeare's Falstaff first appeared as Sir John Oldcastle . In the See also:fourth See also:stanza of this See also:long poem, in which Sir John is his own panegyrist, occurs a See also:reminiscence of Shakespeare's See also:Julius See also:Caesar which serves to See also:fix the date of the See also:play . After travelling in See also:France, the See also:Low Countries and See also:Italy, See also:Weever settled in See also:Clerkenwell, and made See also:friends among the See also:chief antiquaries of his See also:time . The result of extensive travels in his own See also:country appeared in See also:Ancient Futter all Monuments (1631), now valuable on account of the later obliteration of the See also:inscriptions . The Huth Library contains a unique copy of a thumb-See also:book Agnus Dei (i6o6), containing a See also:history of See also:Christ . The Mirror of Martyrs has been reprinted for the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club (1872) .

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