ABSTRACT
Date. Oct–Dec. 1626. Headed Anno aetatis 17 in 1645 and 1673, indicating completion before M.'s eighteenth birthday on 9 Dec. Dr Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, died 5 Oct. 1626. He had been a great friend of Lancelot Andrewes (commemorated in Elegia III); like him he was scholar, fellow (1583) and master (1617) of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and one of the translators of the Authorized Version. The order of composition of M.'s four late-1626 elegies (Prae E, Proc Med, and Elegia II and III) is uncertain. Leo Miller, N&Q 27 (1980) 323–4 and D. Bush (Variorum i 65–9) both think Prae E later than Elegia III (but see headnote to that poem).
