[Footnote 10: Those reprints which were really new _editions_ are in italics.] [Footnote 11: 1594 ed., Pref. Son. and nos. 12, 18, 28; 1599 ed., nos. 3, 31, 46; 1602 ed., 12, 27, 31; and 1603 ed., 47.] [Footnote 12: Meres thought otherwise. Cf. _Palladis Tamia_ (1598), 'As Accius, M. Atilius, and Milithus were called _Tragediographi_, because they writ tragedies: so may wee truly terme Michael Drayton _Tragaediographus_ for his passionate penning the downfals of valiant Robert of Normandy, chast Matilda, and great Gaueston.' Cf. Barnefield, _Poems: in diuers humors_ (ed. Arber, p. 119), 'And Drayton, whose wel-written Tragedies, | And Sweete Epistles, soare thy fame to skies. | Thy learned name is equall with the rest; | Whose stately Numbers are so well addrest.'] [Footnote 13: Cf. Meres, _Palladis Tamia_ (1598), 'Michael Drayton doth imitate Ouid in his _England's Heroical Epistles_.'] [Footnote 14: Cf. id., _ibid._, 'As Lucan hath mournefully depainted the ciuil wars of Pompey and Cæsar: so hath Daniel the ciuill wars of Yorke and Lancaster, and Drayton the civill wars of Edward the second and the Barons.'] [Footnote 15: Cf. Elegy viij. 126-8.] [Footnote 16: Cf. Morley's ed., _Barons' Wars_, &c., 1887, pp. 6-7.] [Footnote 17: Cf. Elron, pp. 83-93, and Whitaker, _M. Drayton as a Dramatist_ (Public. Mod. Lang. Assoc. of America, vol. xviij. 3).] [Footnote 18: Cf. _Nl._ ij. 127 sqq., p. 172.] [Footnote 19: Cf. Elegy ij. 20.] [Footnote 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.'] [Footnote 21: Cf. _Amours_ (1594), xx and xxiv.] [Footnote 22: Cf. Sonnet vj (1619 edition); which is a dignified summary of much that he says more coarsely in the _Moone-Calfe_.] [Footnote 23: Cf. Morley's ed. _Barons' Wars, &c._, p. 8.] [Footnote 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.'] [Footnote 25: Cf. _E. H. E._, pp. 90, 99 (ed. 1737); Elegy i; and _Ode written in the Peak_.] [Footnote 26: Elegy viij, ad init.] [Footnote 27: _Palladis Tamia_ (1598).] [Footnote 28: Cf. _Returne from Parnassus_, i. 2 (1600) ed. Arb. p. 11.] [Footnote 29: _Michael Drayton. A Critical Study_. Oliver Elton, M.A. London: A. Constable & Co., 1905.] SONNETS [from the Edition of 1594] To the deere Chyld of the Muses, and _his euer kind_ Mecænas, _Ma._ Anthony Cooke, Esquire