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WEEVER, JOHN (1576-1632) , English poet and antiquary, a native of Lancashire, was born in 1576. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge ; where he resided for about four years from 1594, but he took no degree. In 1599 he published Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion, containing a sonnet on Shakespeare, and epigrams on Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, William Warner and Christopher Middleton, all of which are valuable to the literary historian. In 16o1 he published The Mirror of Martyrs or The Life
preface the " first trew Oldcastle," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's Falstaff first appeared as Sir John Oldcastle. In the fourth stanza of this long poem, in which Sir John is his own panegyrist, occurs a reminiscence of Shakespeare's Julius
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inscriptions .The Huth Library contains a unique copy of a thumb-book Agnus Dei (i6o6), containing a history of Christ. The Mirror of Martyrs has been reprinted for the Roxburghe Club (1872).End of Article: WEEVER, JOHN (1576-1632) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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