“A barbarous country is not so easily conquered as a civil.”
“A barbarous country is not so easily conquered as a civil.”
16 April 1569–8 December 1626
Sir John Davies, born on 16 April 1569 and dying on 8 December 1626, was one of the most unusually gifted figures of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart world: a poet of intellectual elegance, a lawyer of formidable technical ability, a parliamentarian, an administrator of colonial Ireland, and a man whose life…
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