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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.
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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]
  
Mr. M.D. TO THE AUTHOR.
  
OF THE WORKE AND TRANSLATION.
  
[The curious eye that over-rashly lookes]
  
TO HIS FRIEND, MASTER CHR. M. his Booke.
  
ROWLANDS MADRIGALL.
  
[Nature, and Arte are overmatcht by thee]
  
TO MASTER NICHOLAS GEFFE.
  
TO M. JOHN DAVIES, MY GOOD FRIEND.
  
TO MY KINDE FRIEND DA: MURRAY.
  
Incipit Michael Drayton.
  
TO HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR.
  
TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN, and his translated Hesiod.
  
TO MY FRIEND M. A. H.
  
M. D. ESQUIRE TO HIS GOOD FRIEND, T. V.
  
TO THE DEARE REMEMBRANCE of his Noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.
  
TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. ROBERT DOVER, on his brave annuall Assemblies upon Cotswold.
  
[Soe well I love thee, as without thee I]
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VOLUME II
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VOLUME III
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VOLUME IV

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[The curious eye that over-rashly lookes]

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[From Nicholas Ling's Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth. Newly corrected and augmented, 1598.]

The curious eye that over-rashly lookes,
And gives no tast nor feeling to the mind,
Robs it own selfe, & wrongs those labored bookes
Wherein the soule might greater comfort find;
But when that sence doth play the busie Bee,
And for the honny, not the poyson reeds,
Then for the labour it receaves the fee,
When as the minde on heavenly sweetnes feeds;
This doe thine eye; and if it find not heere
Such precious comforts as may give content,
And shall confesse the travaile not too deere,
Nor idle howers that in this worke were spent,
Never heereafter will I ever looke
For thing of worth in any morrall booke.
M. D.
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