Silly boy,'tis full moon yet, Thy night as day shines clearly, Now let her change I and spare not! Since she proves strange, I care not! Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day, Breaks time, as dancers From their own music when they stray. Drayton. Michael Drayton (born at Hartshill in Warwickshire, 1563, died 1631) is a poet of nearly the same character and calibre as Daniel (of whom later), with the same beginnings as a sonneteer, the same prolixity in versifying history, and the same steady laborious cast of mind. From the age of 10, as he tells us, he was bent on being a Poet, and like greater poets, Burns, for example, he was usually inspired by some model, which, unlike Burns, he did not transfigure and excel. His earliest work, "The Harmony of the Church" (1591), contains rhymed paraphrases of Biblical songs and prayers. Drayton, like Milton, addresses the Heavenly Muse, singing "not of toys on Mount Ida, but of triumphs on Mount Sion". Thus from Exodus XV., the triumph over Egypt, The Lord Jehovah is a Man of War, Pharaoh, his chariots, and his mighty host, Were by his hand in the wild waters lost, His captains drownèd in Red Sea so far. In 1593 appears his "Shepherd's Garland". Spenser had made shepherds fashionable; and eclogues were the mode. In one, "Beta," Queen Elizabeth was praised; in another, Sir Philip Sidney was lamented. The work, with improvements, was republished in 1606. The ballad of Dowsabel was a pleasant and fortunate addition. Anne Goodere, later Lady Rainsford, a daughter of Drayton's patron, Sir Henry Goodere, is the person named Idea, in the sonnets collected under that title. If the one famous and immortal sonnet, Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, be really by Drayton, he here showed mastery; and the addresses to Idea may not be mainly fanciful. Another sonnet on rivers, Drayton's favourite theme in the "Polyolbion," identifies Idea's home--so far she was certainly a real person. But there are critics who deny to him, Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part. It has even been attributed to Shakespeare, because of its excellence.