[49] That is, fed or supplied: as a fire was fed with betars.
[50] Leland repeats this statement: “Thomas Treury now living made a blocke house on S. Catarine’s Hill bottome.” Hearne’s edit. vol. iii. p. 34, note.
APPENDIX.
VIII.
DRAYTON’S POLY-OLBION.—CORNWALL.
Michael Drayton was born of a gentleman’s family in Warwickshire in the year 1563. His ancestors are said to have migrated from Drayton in Lancashire.
Michael exhibited a strong genius for poetry at an early age. He studied at Oxford, but without taking a degree. In 1588 he appears to have served in a military capacity; as he describes the glorious victory over the Invincible Armada, as seen by himself, from the shore near Dover. He died in 1631, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Mr. Drayton was a very voluminous writer of Poetry. We have from him —
- Heroic Epistles after the model of Ovid.
- The Barons’ Wars in the Reign of Edward the Second.
- The Battle of Agincourt.
- The Shepherd’s Garland.
- Elegies.
- The Man in the Moon, the Owl, Odes, and various other small Poems.