1534 - 1577

Soldier and poet.

Educated Trinity College, Cambridge.

Entered Gray's Inn 1555.

In 1561 married the already married Elizabeth Boyes.

This led to a series of legal and financial difficulties culminating in a spell in debtors' gaol.

From 1572 to 1574 was a soldier in the Netherlands.

His poems and plays were published during his absence without his authority.

On his return he brought out a corrected and augmented edition under the title of "The Posies of George Gascoigne".



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