Davison was the fourth and youngest son of William Davison, secretary of state, and his wife Catharine, daughter of Francis Spelman.
He was a fellow-commoner of King's College, Cambridge, in 1596, but he left the university without taking a degree.
As he is not mentioned in his father's will, dated 18 December 1608, it is likely that he was then dead.
At the time these poems were composed he was under eighteen years of age.
"Seventeen of these comprise a competent but unmemorable sequence of amatory poems; the last is a translation from the Latin of a misogynistic epigram.