Hawes

Hawes, STEPHEN, born probably in Suffolk, was groom of the chamber to Henry VII., and wrote, besides some half-dozen other works in prose and verse (now bibliographical rarities), The Passetyme of Pleasure (first printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1509), a prolix poem not without fine stanzas, which doubtless helped to inspire Spenser. There have been reprints in 1831, 1845, &c. Hawes died probably in 1523.