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Sir Edward Dyer 1543?-1607, Elizabethan poet. A friend of Sidney and Spenser, he was celebrated in his day as an elegist. His best-known poem is "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is."

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Dyer, Sir Edward (1543–1607), poet, was introduced at court by the earl of Leicester, and took part in the queen's entertainment at Woodstock in 1575. The most famous poem attributed to him, ‘My mind to me a kingdom is’, is probably not his work, but by Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford. One of the best of his surviving poems is his elegy on his close friend Sir P. Sidney, which begins ‘Silence augmenteth griefe’, printed in The Phoenix Nest (1593).

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