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The person who Everard Guilpin called 'Fuscus' in his popular late 16th century epigrams can, through a series of logical steps, be shown to be the lawyer and epigrammist Sir John Davies.
This page is a summary of: Sir John Davies as Guilpin’s Fuscus, Notes and Queries, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjv187.
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