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The Works of Michael Drayton

Edited by J. William Hebel

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OF THE WORKE AND TRANSLATION.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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OF THE WORKE AND TRANSLATION.

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[From Anthony Munday's Second Booke of Primaleon of Greece . . . . Translated out of French, 1596.]

If in opinion of judiciall wit,
Primaleons sweet Invention well deserve:
Then he (no lesse) which hath translated it,
Which doth his sense, his forme, his phrase observe.
And in true method of his home-borne stile,
(Following the fashion of a French conceate)
Hath brought him heere into this famous Ile,
Where but a Stranger now hath made his seate.
He lives a Prince, and comming in this sort,
Shall to his Countrey of your fame report.
M. D.