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The Works of Michael Drayton

Edited by J. William Hebel
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)

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VOLUME I
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THE HARMONIE of the Church.
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IDEA THE SHEPHEARDS GARLAND, Fashioned in nine Eglogs.
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IDEAS MIRROVR.
  
TO THE DEERE CHYLD OF THE MUSES, AND HIS EVER KIND MECÆNAS, MA. ANTHONY COOKE, ESQUIRE.
  
[Ankor tryumph, upon whose blessed shore]
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ENDIMION and Phœbe. IDEAS LATMVS.
  
Peirs Gaueston EARLE OF CORNWALL.
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MATILDA. The faire and chaste Daughter of the Lord Robert Fitzwater.
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THE Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy, surnamed Short-thigh, eldest sonne to William Conqueror.
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Mortimeriados. THE LAMENTABLE ciuell warres of Edward the second and the Barrons.
  
TO THE MAIESTIE OF KING JAMES.
  
A PÆAN TRIVMPHALL.
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[SONNETS NOT PRINTED IN IDEAS MIRROUR, 1594, OR IN IDEA, 1619]
  
To the high and mighty Prince, James, King of Scots. Sonnet. 62.
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[ODES NOT REPRINTED IN 1619 From Poemes Lyrick and pastorall (1606).]
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[UNCOLLECTED POEMS]
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VOLUME II
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To the high and mighty Prince, James, King of Scots. Sonnet. 62.

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[From Idea, appended to Englands Heroicall Epistles, 1600]

Not thy grave Counsells, nor thy Subjects love,
Nor all that famous Scottish royaltie,
Or what thy soveraigne greatnes may approve,
Others in vaine doe but historifie,
When thine owne glory from thy selfe doth spring,
As though thou did'st, all meaner prayses scorne:
Of Kings a Poet, and the Poets King,
They Princes, but thou Prophets do'st adorne;
Whilst others by their Empires are renown'd,
Thou do'st enrich thy Scotland with renowne,
And Kings can but with Diadems be crown'd,
But with thy Laurell, thou doo'st crowne thy Crowne;
That they whose pens, (even) life to Kings doe give,
In thee a King, shall seeke them selves to live.
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