Francis Davison (poet)

Francis Davison (c. 1575–1616) was an English lawyer, poet and anthologist. He was made a member of Gray's Inn in 1593; travelled in Italy in 1595; contributed some of its best poems to A Poetical Rapsody in 1602; and left in manuscript metrical translations from the Psalms, Tabula Analytlca Poetica, and some historical pamphlets.