Minor Poems of Michael Drayton

by Michael Drayton

[19] Cf. Elegy ij. 20.

[20] Cf. Palladis Tamia: 'Michael Drayton is now in penning, in English verse, a Poem called Poly-olbion, Geographicall & Hydrographicall of all the forests, woods, mountaines, fountaines, riuers, lakes, flouds, bathes, & springs that be in England.'

[21] Cf. Amours (1594), xx and xxiv.

[22] Cf. Sonnet vj (1619 edition); which is a dignified summary of much that he says more coarsely in the Moone-Calfe.

[23] Cf. Morley's ed. Barons' Wars, &c., p. 8.

[24] Charles FitzGeoffrey, Drake (1596), 'golden-mouthed Drayton musical.' Guilpin, Skialetheia (1598), 'Drayton's condemned of some for imitation, But others say, 'tis the best poet's fashion ... Drayton's justly surnam'd golden-mouth'd.' Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598),' In Charles Fitz-Jefferies Drake Drayton is termed "golden-mouth'd" for the purity and pretiousnesse of his stile and phrase.'

[25] Cf. E. H. E., pp. 90, 99 (ed. 1737); Elegy i; and Ode written in the Peak.

[26] Elegy viij, ad init.

[27] Palladis Tamia (1598).

[28] Cf. Returne from Parnassus, i. 2 (1600) ed. Arb. p. 11.