Drayton[68] was a stronger man than Daniel, and there came forth more sweetness from him. No writer of the time was more voluminous. The sonnets, to which he seems to have been somewhat indifferent, form a very small portion of his work. Whenever he began to write (it is said that his love of literature was shown when he was a boy), he did not publish early. His first poem--_A Harmonie of the Church_--appeared in 1591. It was suppressed by the censorship, then directed by Archbishop Whitgift, but republished under another title, _The Heavenly Harmonie of Spiritual Songs and Holy Hymns_, in 1610. In 1593 he published nine eclogues with the title of _Idea_, a name also given to the sonnets printed in 1594. It is to be noted that the famous sonnet beginning, “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part,” which is so superior to the others, and so like Shakespeare’s, was first included in the edition of 1619. Drayton, like Daniel, was much in the habit of revising his work. He not uncommonly incorporated his earlier poems in his later with great changes. In 1596 appeared the awkwardly named _Mortimeriados_, in the seven-line stanza, recast and republished in _ottava rima_ in 1603 under the title of _The Barons’ Wars_. Between these two came the _Heroical Epistles_ in 1597. In 1604 Drayton made a most unfortunate attempt to win the favour of James I. by flattery, and he also published a satirical poem, _The Owl_, and his _Moses in a Map of his Miracles_. To 1605 belongs a collection of short poems, including the most famous of his minor poems, except the universally known sonnet, the magnificent _Ballad of Agincourt_. The years which follow were employed in the composition of his vast _Polyolbion_, of which nineteen books appeared in 1613, and which was completed in 1622. Between these dates he brought out an edition of his poems in 1619. In 1627 he went back on the battle of Agincourt, and produced the poem of that name, together with _Nymphidia_ and _The Miseries of Queen Margaret_. At the very close of his life, in 1630, he published the gay and graceful _Muses’ Elysium_. He wrote also for the stage, to which he had no natural inclination, in an occasional and subordinate way.