Davies, Sir John, poet and statesman, born in Wiltshire; wrote two philosophic poems, “The Orchestra,” a poem in which the world is exhibited as a dance, and “Nosce Teipsum” (Know Thyself), a poem on human learning and the immortality of the soul; became a favourite with James I., and was sent Attorney-General to Ireland (1569‒1626).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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