In his Presence Chamber, before dinner.
| [Sir Robert Cecil,] Lord Essendon | [, co. Rutl.: afterwards Earl of Salisbury]. |
| [Sir Robert Sydney,] Lord Sydney of Penshurst | [, co. Kent: afterwards Earl of Leicester]. |
| [Sir William Knollys,] Lord Knollys of Grays | [, co. Oxon.: afterwards Earl of Banbury]. |
| [Sir Edward Wotton,] Lord Wotton of Mar[her]ley | [, co. Kent]. |
| Sir John Deane | [co. Essex] |
| Sir John Treavor | [co. Flint] |
| Sir Thomas Smith | [co. Kent] |
| Sir Thomas Hubert | [co. Norf.] |
| And [in the] afternoon, in the Gallery. | |
| Sir William Dethick, Garter [King at Arms | co. Surr.] |
| Sir Robert Macklarand | [co. Oxon.] |
| Sir George Morton | [co. Dors.] |
| Sir Edmund Bell | [co. Norf.] |
| Sir Thomas Peyton | [co. Kent] |
| Sir David Fowles | |
| Sir William Gardner | [co. Surr.] |
Footnotes
[17] As recorded in this Narrative, James I. made 303 Knights during his Progress to London; and, in all, 2323 during his reign in England. The spelling of their names is given here according to J. P. [John Philipot], Somerset Herald, his A perfect Collection of all Knight Bachelors made by King James, &c. London. 1660. 8vo. From which authority also, their Counties are here inserted between square brackets. Names in Philipot, and not in this text, are also inserted in square brackets.
E. A.
[18] Sir Oliver Cromwell was uncle of his great namesake.
E. A.
Michael Drayton.
Odes.
[1606, and 1619.]
The following twelve Odes made their first appearance in an undated Volume of Poems Lyrical and Pastoral: but its date is fixed, as being in 1606, mainly by the 11th Ode on The Virginian Voyage.
As will be seen from pages 358-359 of the Second Volume of this Series; James I., on 10th April 1606, divided Virginia into two Colonies. The Southern (34° to 41° N.), or First, Colony, he granted to the London Company: and the Northern (38° to 45° N.), or Second, Colony, to the Plymouth Company.
This 11th Ode must therefore have been written somewhat before 12th August 1606; as, on that day, the Plymouth Company sent off, for North Virginia, Captain Henry Challon's ship: which was however taken by the Spanish Plate Fleet, and its crew brought prisoners into Spain.
Of these twelve Odes; Nos. 4 and 8 were not reprinted in the Second Edition of 1619. The text of the other ten is largely that of that later edition, which was carefully revised by Drayton; who, amongst other changes, added in it those Headings which are here inserted between square brackets.
To the Reader.
ODes I have called these, the first of my few Poems; which how happy soever they prove, yet Criticism itself cannot say, That the name is wrongfully usurped. For (not to begin with Definitions, against the Rule of Oratory; nor ab ovo, against the Prescript of Poetry in a poetical argument: but somewhat only to season thy palate with a slight description) an Ode is known to have been properly a Song moduled to the ancient harp: and neither too short-breathed, as hastening to the end; nor composed of [the] longest verses, as unfit for the sudden turns and lofty tricks with which Apollo used to manage it.