Watson, THOMAS

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 578

Watson, THOMAS (c. 1557-92), a writer of artificial love poetry, was a Londoner who studied at Oxford. He wrote Latin poems and Englished Italian madrigals, but is best known for his Hecatompedia (1582) and Tcares of Fancy (1593).

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