Until this instant.”
Henry V., act iv., sc. 7.
[Page 92, l. 15.] “And so tow’rds Callice brauely marching on.”—This is certainly a flat conclusion. It is surprising that Drayton made no use of the appearance of the herald Montjoy on the field, with confession of defeat and appeal for—
“Charitable licence,
That we may wander o’er this bloody field
To book our dead, and then to bury them.”
Henry V., act iv., sc. 7.
[ TO MY FRINDS THE CAMBER-BRITANS]
AND THEYR HARP.
It has already been observed in the Introduction that this grand lyric gave the model for Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade.” This latter poem appears along with “Maud,” and another piece in the same slender volume contains unequivocal proof of the Laureate’s acquaintance with Drayton. In the powerful poem entitled “Will” occur the lines—
“Sown in a wrinkle of the monstrous hill,