John Lane
John Lane (fl. 1620) was an English poet. A good friend of John Milton the elder, he lacked university education.
John Lane
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- Born
- 1600
- Died
- 1630
- Occupation
- poet
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He published two poems, Tom Tel-troths Message and his Pens Complaint (1600), which was satirical, and An Elegie vpon the Death of the high and renowned Princesse our late Soueraigne Elizabeth (1603). He left a continuation of The Squire's Tale in manuscript, in two different versions, both now in the Bodleian Library (MS. Douce 170 and MS. Ashmole 53, part).
John Lane (1600–1630) was a poet.
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