Early Life
Watson was the son of William Watson (d.1559) and Anne Lee (d.1561). He was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University. He then spent 7 years in France and Italy before studying law in London. Though he often signed his works with "student of law" he never practiced law, considering his true passion was literature.
His De remedio amoris, which was perhaps his earliest important composition, is lost, as is his "piece of work written in the commendation of women-kind", which was also in Latin verse. The earliest publication by Watson which has survived is a Latin version of the Antigone of Sophocles, issued in 1581, dedicated to Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel. The version also contains an appendix of Latin Allegorical poems and experiments in classical metres.
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