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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.
  
[dedication]
  
THE MOST NOTABLE SONG OF MOSES,
  
A SONG OF MOSES AND THE ISRAELITES, FOR THEIR DELIVERANCE OUT OF EGYPT.
  
THE MOST EXCELLENT SONG WHICH WAS SALOMONS,
  
THE SONG OF ANNAH, for the bringing foorth of Samuel her sonne.
  
THE SONG OF JONAH IN THE WHALES BELLIE.
  
THE PRAIER OF JEREMIAH, bewailing the captivitie of the people.
  
THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARACKE.
  
AN OTHER SONG OF THE FAITHFULL, FOR THE MERCIES OF GOD.
  
A SONG OF THE FAITHFULL.
  
A SONG OF THANKES TO GOD, in that hee sheweth himselfe Judge of the world, in punishing the wicked, and maintaining the godlie.
  
AN OTHER SONG OF THE FAITHFULL, wherein is declared in what consisteth the salvation of the Church.
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HEREAFTER FOLLOWE CERTAIN OTHER SONGS AND PRAIERS of godly men and women, out of the Bookes of Apocripha.
  
THE PRAIER OF JUDITH, FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF THE PEOPLE.
  
THE SONG OF JUDITH, HAVING SLAINE HOLOPHERNES.
  
A PRAIER OF THE AUTHOUR.
  
THE PRAIER OF SALOMON.
  
A SONG OF JHESUS THE SONNE OF SIRACH.
  
THE PRAIER OF HESTER, for the deliverance of her and her people.
  
THE PRAIER OF MARDOCHEUS.
  
A PRAIER IN THE PERSON OF THE FAITHFULL.
  
A PRAIER OF TOBIAS, EXHORTING ALL MEN TO PRAISE THE LORD.
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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]
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VOLUME II
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VOLUME III
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VOLUME IV

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33

A PRAIER OF THE AUTHOUR.

In the xxiii. Chap. of Ecclesiasticus.

Lord of my life, my guide and governour,
Father, of thee this one thing I require,
Thou wilt not leave me to the wicked power,
Which seeke my fall, and stil my death desire.
Oh, who is he that shall instruct my thought,
And so with wisdom shall inspire my heart:
In ignorance that nothing may be wrought
By me with them whose sinne shall not depart.
Least that mine errors growe and multiplie,
And to destruction through my sinnes I fall:
My foes rejoice at my adversitie,
Who in thy mercie have no hope at all.
My Lord and God, from whom my life I tooke,
Unto the wicked leave me not a pray:
A haughty mind, a proud disdainfull looke,
From me thy Servant take thou cleane away.
Vaine hope likewise, with vile concupiscence,
Lord of thy mercie take thou cleane from me:
Retaine thou him in true obedience,
Who with desire daily serveth thee.
Let not desire to please the greedy mawe,
Or appetite of any fleshly lust:
Thy servant from his loving Lord withdraw,
But give thou me a mind both good and just.
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