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The Works of Michael Drayton

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

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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.
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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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To Idea.

Amidst those shades wherein the Muses sit,
Thus to Idea, my Idea sings,
Support of wisedome, better force of Wit:
Which by desert, desert to honour brings,
Borne to create good thoughts by thy rare woorth,
Whom Nature with her bounteous store doth blesse,
More excellent then Art can set thee forth;
Happy in more, then praises can expresse:
Which by thy selfe shalt make thy selfe continue,
When all worlds glory shall be cleane forgot,
Thus I the least of skilfull Arts retinue:
Write in thy prayse which time shall never blot;
Heaven made thee what thou art, till worlds be done,
Thy fame shall florish like the rising Sunne.
S. G.
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