The earliest definite indication that I have found of Beaumont's literary activity, and of his recognition by poets, connects him with his brother John, and is highly suggestive in still other respects. John had already written, in 1603 or 1604, verses prefatory to Drayton's poetic treatment of _Moyses in a Map of his Miracles_, published in June of the latter year; and also, in 1605, to Drayton's revision of the _Barrons Wars_. On April 19, 1606, Drayton issued a volume entitled _Poems Lyrick and Pastoral_, which included with other verses a revision, under the name of _Eglogs_, of his _Idea, the Shepheard's Garland_, first published in 1593. In the eighth eclogue of this new edition, Drayton, writing of the ladies of his time to whom "much the Muses owe," adds to his praise of Sidney's (Elphin's) sister Mary, Countess of Pembroke, an encomium upon the two daughters of his early patron, Sir Henry Goodere, Frances and Anne (Lady Ramsford); then he celebrates a "dear Sylvia, one the best alive," and Then that dear nymph that in the Muses joys, That in wild Charnwood with her flocks doth go, Mirtilla, sister to those hopeful boys, My loved Thyrsis and sweet Palmeo; That oft to Soar the southern shepherds bring, Of whose clear waters they divinely sing. So good she is, so good likewise they be, As none to her might brother be but they, Nor none a sister unto them, but she,-- To them for wit few like, I dare will say: In them as Nature truly meant to show How near the first, she in the last could go.