Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text comes in three different forms: unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ASCII-7. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the utf-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but French words like “étude” have accents and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ascii-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be there; it just won’t be as pretty. In the main text, stanza numbers were added by the transcriber to aid in cross-references to the Notes. They are not present in the original. Stanzas 64-78 (pages 29-33) have labeled notes instead of the regular full-stanza sidenotes. The identifying letters are unchanged; the notes are placed at the end of each stanza, instead of at the beginning like the sidenotes. Errors and inconsistencies are listed at the end of the text, along with a few lines containing characters that may not display correctly on your text reader.] [_The portrait of Michael Drayton given here as a frontispiece is from a picture, taken at the age of sixty-five (three years before he died), in the Cartwright Collection at the Dulwich Gallery. The name of the painter is not known, but the picture is signed “An^o 1628.”_] [Illustration: Michael Drayton] THE BATTAILE OF AGINCOURT BY MICHAEL DRAYTON: WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY RICHARD GARNETT [Illustration: Publisher’s Device] LONDON PRINTED AND ISSUED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM & CO AT THE CHISWICK PRESS MDCCCXCIII CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction vii Drayton’s Dedication 3 Upon the Battaile of Agincourt, by I. Vaughan 5 Sonnet to Michael Drayton, By John Reynolds 7 The Vision of Ben Jonson on the Muses of his Friend M. Drayton 9 The Battaile of Agincourt 13 To my Frinds the Camber-Britans and theyr Harp 93 Illustrative Notes 101 INTRODUCTION.