"The Bee and Spider by a diverse power, Sucke Hony and Poyson from the selfe same flower."
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A Poetical Rapsody, rev. ed. (London: William Stansby for Roger Jackson, 1611) epigraph
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Francis Davison (poet)
1575 – 1616
Francis Davison (c. 1575 – 1616) was an English lawyer, poet and anthologist.
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