ABSTRACT
Sir John Roe (1581-1608) was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. For an account of him and his relations with Donne, see Donne's Poems, ed. Sir Herbert Grierson (Oxford, 1912), II. cxxix-cxxxv.
From To Sir Nicholas Smith first published in the seventh edition of John Donne's Poems (1669), p. 138; repro Grierson, I. 401:
Here sleeps House by famous Ariosto, By silver-tongu'd Ovid, and many moe, Perhaps by golden-mouth'd Spencer too pard ie, (Which builded was some dozen Stories high) I had repair'd.
