ABSTRACT
John Lane (flor. c. 1620) produced a great deal of doggerel, much of which is so bad as to be unintelligible. Though an intimate of Milton's father, he could not have taught Milton much. As a poet, he relies heavily on Spenser and the earlier English poets. To support the worthwhileness of his effort at a continuation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale (Bodleian MS. Douce 170), he cites Spenser on Chaucer as an authority. He also writes with considerable feeling on Spenser's death in Tritons Trumphet. The passages printed below must count as his most enlightening.
