DAVIES, JOHN, _of Hereford_.
Microcosmos. The Discouery of the Little World, with the government
thereof.
Manilius.
An mirum est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro?
Exemplumq; Dei quisq; est sub imagine paruâ.
By Iohn Davies. _At Oxford, Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee
solde in Fleetestreete at the signe of the Turkes head by Iohn Barnes._
1603.
4^o. (7-1/4 × 5-3/8). R. 12. 1.
Collation: A-2O^{4}2P^2, paged. Dedicatory verses to King James and
to the Queen, both signed. Five copies of verses by Davies.
Commendatory verses signed: Io. Sanfordus (Lat.), Robertus
Burhillus (Lat.), N. Debillus (Lat.), Iohn Iames (Lat. and Eng.),
T. R. (Lat.), Douglas Castilion (one copy unsigned), Charles
Fitz-Ieffry (one copy unsigned), Nicholas Deeble, Nathanael Tomkins
(Lat.), and the author's brother Richard Davies. Verse Preface to
the King, signed. Verses to the Prince of Wales, signed.
'Microcosmus' is followed by 'An Extasy'; both are in verse.
Sonnets and poems by Davies. Commendatory verses from N. Deeble and
Ed. Lapworth (Lat.).