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Jasper Mayne

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In an amusing anecdote recounted in Blackwood's Magazine, Dr. Mayne is said to have bequeathed a trunk to an old servant, noting that it contained something that would make him drink. When opened, it was found to contain a red herring.
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank
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plays (1623). Yet since Mayne was only nineteen years old at the time the Folio was published, scholars have tended to favor
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Mayne died on 6 December 1672 at Oxford, and was interred on the north side of the choir at Christchurch.
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This article is about the English clergyman. For the English chief constable and marksman, see
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proposed Jasper Mayne as a possible identity of the "I. M." who wrote the fourth
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Mayne wrote two plays before giving up poetry as unbefitting his station:
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt
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clergyman, translator, and a minor poet and dramatist.
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Jasper Graham Mayne
English
Hatherleigh
Devon
Westminster School
Christ Church, Oxford
Oxfordshire
Doctor of Divinity
Commonwealth
Duke of Devonshire
Restoration
canon
Archdeacon of Chichester
Charles II
St. Paul's Cathedral
Great Fire of London
The City Match
Charles I
The Amorous War
tragicomedy
Lucian of Samosata
John Donne
Beaumont and Fletcher
Sidney Lee
commendatory verse
First Folio
Shakespeare's
James Mabbe
Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Mascall-Meyrick
Samuel Johnson

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