About John Lane
Lived 1600 – 1630. John Lane was a poet.
John Lane (fl. 1620) was an English poet. A good friend of John Milton the elder, he lacked university education. He published two poems, Tom Tel-troths Message and his Pens Complaint, 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).
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John Lane was a poet.
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