Delphi Collected Works of Michael Drayton (Illustrated)电子书

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Michael Drayton

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The Life and Poetry of Michael Drayton

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: MICHAEL DRAYTON

The Poetry Collections

THE HARMONY OF THE CHURCH

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

THE HARMONIE OF THE CHURCH.

TO THE GODLY AND VERTUOUS LADY, THE LADY JANE DEUOREUX, OF MERIUALE.

TO THE CURTEOUS READER.

THE SPIRITUALLL SONGES AND HOLY HYMNES CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK.

OTHER SONGES AND PRAIERS OUT OF THE BOOKES OF APOCRIPHA.

THE MOST NOTABLE SONG OF MOSES, CONTAINING GODS BENEFITES TO HIS PEOPLE, WHICH HE TAUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAELL A LITLE BEFORE HIS DEATH, AND COMMANDED THEM TO LEARNE IT, AND TEACH IT VNTO THEIR CHILDREN, AS A WITNESSE BETWEENE GOD AND THEM.

A SONG OF MOSES AND THE ISRAELITES FOR THEIR DELIUERANCE OUT OF EGYPT.

THE MOST EXCELLENT SONG, WHICH WAS SALOMONS

CHAP. I

THE SECOND CHAPTER.

THE THIRD CHAPTER.

THE FOURTH CHAPTER.

THE FIFT CHAPTER.

THE SIXT CHAPTER.

THE SEUENTH CHAPTER.

THE EIGHT CHAPTER.

THE SONG OF ANNAH FOR THE BRINGING FOORTH OF SAMUEL HER SONNE.

THE SONG OF IONAH IN THE WHALES BELLIE.

THE PRAIER OF IEREMIAH, BEWAILING THE CAPTIUITIE OF THE PEOPLE.

THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARACKE.

ANOTHER SONG OF THE FAITHFULL FOR THE MERCIES OF GOD.

A SONG OF THE FAITHFULL.

A SONG OF THANKES TO GOD

ANOTHER SONG OF THE FAITHFULL, WHEREIN IS DECLARED IN WHAT CONSISTETH THE SALUATION OF THE CHURCH.

THE PRAIER OF IUDITH FOR THE DELIUERANCE OF THE PEOPLE.

THE SONG OF IUDITH, HAUING SLAINE HOLOPHERNES.

A PRAIER OF THE AUTHOUR.

THE PRAIER OF SALOMON.

A SONG OF IHESUS THE SONNE OF SIRACH.

THE PRAIER OF HESTER FOR THE DELIUERANCE OF HER AND HER PEOPLE.

THE PRAIER OF MARDOCHEUS.

A PRAIER IN THE PERSON OF THE FAITHFULL.

A PRAIER OF TOBIAS, EXHORTING ALL MEN TO PRAISE THE LORD

IDEA, THE SHEPHERD’S GARLAND

CONTENTS

THE FIRST EGLOG.

THE SECOND EGLOG.

THE THIRD EGLOG.

THE FOVRTH EGLOG.

THE FIFTH EGLOG.

THE SIXT EGLOG.

THE SEVENTH EGLOG.

THE EIGHTH EGLOG.

THE NINTH EGLOG.

THE LEGEND OF PIERS GAVESTON

PEIRS GAVESTON.

IDEA’S MIRROR

CONTENTS

To the deere Chyld of the Muses, and his euer kind Mecaenas, Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire.

Amour 1.

Amour 2.

Amour 3.

Amour 4.

Amour 5.

Amour 6.

Amour 7.

Amour 8.

Amour 9.

Amour 10.

Amour 11.

Amour 12.

Amour 13.

Amour 14.

Amour 15.

Amour 16.

Amour 17.

Amour 18.

Amour 19.

Amour 20.

Amour 21.

Amour 22.

Amour 23

Amour 24.

Amour 25.

Amour 26.

Amour 27

Amour 28.

Amour 29.

Amour 30.

Amour 31.

Amour 32.

Amour 33.

Amour 34.

Amour 35.

Amour 36.

Amour 37.

Amour 38.

Amour 39.

Amour 40.

Amour 41.

Amour 42

Amour 43.

Amour 44.

Amour 45

Amour 46.

Amour 47.

Amour 48.

Amour 49.

Amour 50.

Amour 51.

THE EIGHTH EGLOG.

THE NINTH EGLOG.

MATILDA

CONTENTS

THE VISION OF MATILDA.

TO M. DRAYTON.

MATILDA.

ENDIMION AND PHOEBE

ENDIMION & PHOEBE

MORTIMERIADOS

CONTENTS

MORTIMERIADOS.

TO THE EXCELLENT AND MOST ACCOMPLISH’D LADIE, LUCIE COUNTESSE OF BEDFORD.

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LADY, LUCIE COUNTESSE OF BEDFORD.

MORTIMERIADOS.

THE LEGEND OF ROBERT, DUKE OF NORMANDY

CONTENTS

TO THE VERTUOUS LADY, THE LADY ANNE HARRINGTON: WISE TO THE HONORABLE GENTLEMAN, SIR IOHN HARRINGTON, KNIGHT.

THE ARGUMENT OF ROBERT DUKE OF NORMANDIE.

THE TRAGICALL LEGEND OF ROBERT DUKE OF NORMANDIE.

ENGLAND’S HEROICAL EPISTLES

CONTENTS

To the Reader.

To M. Michaell Drayton.

To M. Michaell Drayton.

To M. Michaell Drayton.

To the excellent Lady Lucie, Countesse of Bedford.

The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henrie the second.

Henry to Rosamond.

King Iohn to Matilda.

Matilda to King Iohn.

To the vertuous Lady, the Lady Anne Harrington: wife to the honourable Gentleman, Sir Iohn Harrington Knight.

Queene Isabell to Mortimer.

Mortimer to Queene Isabell.

To my worthy and honoured friend, Maister Walter Aston.

Edward the blacke Prince to Alice Countesse of Salisburie.

Alice Countesse of Salisburie, to the blacke Prince.

To the Right Honourable and my very good Lord, Edward Earle of Bedford.

Queene Isabell to Richard the second.

Richard the second to Queene Isabell.

Queene Katherine to Owen Tudor.

Owen Tudor to Queene Katherine.

To my worthy and deerely esteemed Friend, Maister Iames Huish.

Elinor Cobham to Duke Humfrey.

Duke Humfrey to Elinor Cobham.

To my honoured Mistres, Mistres Elizabeth Tanfelde, the sole daughter and heyre of that famous and learned Lawyer, Lawrence Tanfelde Esquire.

William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolke, to Queene Margaret.

Queene Margaret to William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolke.

To the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Munson, Knight.

Edward the fourth to Shores wife.

The Epistle of Shores wife to King Edward the fourth.

To the Right Worshipfull Sir Henry Goodere of Powlesworth Knight.

Mary the French Queene, to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolke.

Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene.

To my most deere friend Maister Henry Lucas, sonne to Edward Lucas Esquire.

Henry Howard Earle of Surrey to Geraldine.

Geraldine to Henry Howard Earle of Surrey.

To the vertuous Ladie, the Lady Frauncis Goodere, wife to Sir Henry Goodere, Knight.

The Ladie Iane Gray to the Lord Gilford Dudley.

The Lord Gilford Dudley, to the Lady Iane Gray.

THE BARONS’ WARS IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD II

CONTENTS

TO SIR WALTER ASTON, KNIGHT OF THE HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, AND MY MOST WORTHY PATRON.

TO THE READER.

TO M. MICHAELL DRAYTON.

TO M. MICHAELL DRAYTON.

THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE BARRONS WARRES.

THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE BARRONS WARRES.

THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE BARRONS WARRES.

THE FOURTH BOOKE OF THE BARRONS WARRES.

THE FIFTH BOOKE OF THE BARRONS WARRES.

THE SIXTH BOOKE OF THE BARRONS WARRES.

TO THE MAIESTIE OF KING JAMES

TO THE MAIESTIE OF KING IAMES.

THE OWL

THE OWLE

A PAEAN TRIUMPHALL

A PAEAN TRIUMPHALL.

THE MAN IN THE MOON

THE MAN IN THE MOON

BALLAD OF AGINCOURT

THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT

POLY-OLBION

CONTENTS

POLY-OLBION: VPON THE FRONTISPICE.

TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE, HENRIE, Prince of Wales.

TO THE GENERALL READER.

TO MY FRIENDS, THE CAMBRO-BRITANS.

POLY-OLBION: THE FIRST SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SECOND SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE THIRD SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE FOURTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE FIFT SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SIXT SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SEVENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE EIGHTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE NINTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE TENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE ELEVENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE TWELFTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE THIRTEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE FOURTEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE FIFTEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SIXTEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SEVENTEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE EIGHTEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE NINETEENTH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE TWENTIETH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE ONE AND TWENTIETH SONG.

POLY-OLBION: THE TWO AND TWENTIETH SONG.

POLY-OLBION: THE THREE AND TWENTIETH SONG.

POLY-OLBION: THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH SONG.

POLY-OLBION: THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SIXE AND TWENTIETH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE EIGHT AND TWENTIETH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE NINE AND TWENTIETH SONG

POLY-OLBION: THE THIRTIETH SONG

IDEA, 1619

CONTENTS

TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS

IDEA, I

IDEA, II

IDEA, III

IDEA, IV

IDEA, V

IDEA, VI

IDEA, VII

IDEA, VIII

IDEA, IX

IDEA, X

IDEA, XI

IDEA, XII

IDEA, XIII

IDEA, XIV

IDEA, XV

IDEA, XVI

IDEA, XVII

IDEA, XVIII

IDEA, XIX

IDEA, XX

IDEA, XXI

IDEA, XXII

IDEA, XXIII

IDEA, XXIV

IDEA, XXV

IDEA, XXVI

IDEA, XXVII

IDEA, XXVIII

IDEA, XXIX

IDEA, XXX

IDEA, XXXI

IDEA, XXXII

IDEA, XXXIII

IDEA, XXXIV

IDEA, XXXV

IDEA, XXXVI

IDEA, XXXVII

IDEA, XXXVIII

IDEA, XXXIX

IDEA, XL

IDEA, XLI

IDEA, XLII

IDEA, XLIII

IDEA, XLIV

IDEA, XLV

IDEA, XLVI

IDEA, XLVII

IDEA, XLVIII

IDEA, XLIX

IDEA, L

IDEA, LI

IDEA, LII

IDEA, LIII

IDEA, LIV

IDEA, LV

IDEA, LVI

IDEA, LVII

IDEA, LVIII

IDEA, LIX

IDEA, LX

IDEA, LXI

IDEA, LXII

IDEA, LXIII

IDEA, LXIV.

IDEA, LXV.

IDEA, LXVI.

IDEA, LXVII.

IDEA, LXVIII.

IDEA, LXIX.

IDEA, LXX.

IDEA, LXXI.

IDEA, LXXII.

IDEA, LXXIII.

IDEA, A CANSONET.

THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. MICHAELL DRAYTON VPON THESE HIS POEMS.

THE VISION OF BEN. IONSON, ON THE MVSES OF HIS FRIEND M. DRAYTON.

THE BATTAILE OF AGINCOVRT.

TO MY FRINDS THE CAMBER-BRITANS AND THEYR HARP.

NIMPHIDIA, THE COURT OF FAERY

NIMPHIDIA

THE QUEST OF CINTHIA

THE QVEST OF CYNTHIA

THE SHEPHERD’S SIRENA

THE SHEPHEARDS SIRENA

ELEGIES UPON SUNDRY OCCASIONS

CONTENTS

OF HIS LADIES NOT COMMING TO LONDON.

TO MASTER GEORGE SANDIS TREASURER FOR THE ENGLISH COLONY IN VIRGINA.

TO. MY NOBLE FRIEND MASTER WILLIAM BROWNE, OF THE EUILL TIME.

VPON THE THREE SONNES OF THE LORD SHEFFIELD, DROWNED IN HUMBER.

TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY I. S. OF WORLDLY CROSSES.

AN ELEGIE VPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY PENELOPE CLIFTON.

VPON THE NOBLE LADY ASTONS DEPARTURE FOR SPAINE.

TO MY MOST DEARELY-LOUED FRIEND HENRY REYNOLDS ESQUIRE OF POETS AND POESIE.

VPON THE DEATH OF HIS INCOMPARABLE FRIEND, SIR HENRY RAYNSFORD, OF CLIFFORD.

VPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY OLIUE STANHOPE.

TO MAISTER WILLIAM IEFFRYES, CHAPLEINE TO THE LORD AMBASSADOUR IN SPAINE.

VPON THE DEATH OF MISTRIS ELIANOR FALLOWFIELD.

THE MOON CALF

THE MOONE-CALFE.

MOSES’ BIRTH AND MIRACLES

CONTENTS

MOSES’ BIRTH AND MIRACLES: THE FIRST BOOKE.

MOSES’ BIRTH AND MIRACLES: THE SECOND BOOKE.

MOSES’ BIRTH AND MIRACLES: THE THIRD BOOKE.

THE MUSES’ ELIZIUM

CONTENTS

THE DESCRIPTION OF ELIZIUM

THE FIRST NIMPHALL

THE SECOND NIMPHALL

THE THIRD NIMPHALL

THE FOURTH NIMPHALL

THE FIFT NIMPHALL

THE SIXT NIMPHALL

THE SEUENTH NIMPHALL

THE EIGHT NIMPHALL

THE NINTH NIMPHALL

THE TENTH NIMPHALL

DAVID AND GOLIAH

DAVID AND GOLIAH.

THE SHORTER POEMS

CONTENTS

SONNETS, 1594

To the deere Chyld of the Muses, and his euer kind Mecænas, Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire

Amour 1

Amour 2

Amour 3

Amour 4

Amour 5

Amour 6

Amour 7

Amour 8

Amour 9

Amour 10

Amour 11

Amour 12

Amour 13

Amour 14

Amour 15

Amour 16

Amour 17

Amour 18

Amour 19

Amour 20

Amour 21

Amour 22

Amour 23

Amour 24

Amour 25

Amour 26

Amour 27

Amour 28

Amour 29

Amour 30

Amour 31

Amour 32

Amour 33

Amour 34

Amour 35

Amour 36

Amour 37

Amour 38

Amour 39

Amour 40

Amour 41

Amour 42

Amour 43

Amour 44

Amour 45

Amour 46

Amour 47

Amour 48

Amour 49

Amour 50

Amour 51

SONNETS, 1599

Sonet 1

Sonet 2

Sonet 3

Sonet 5

Sonet 8

Sonet 9

Sonet 10

Sonet 11

Sonet 12

Sonet 13

Sonet 14

Sonet 21

Sonet 22

Sonet 23

Sonet 24

Sonet 25

Sonet 27

Sonet 29

Sonet 30

Sonet 31

Sonet 34

Sonet 43

Sonet 44

Sonet 45

Sonet 55

Sonet 56

Sonet 57

Sonet 58

SONNETS, 1602

Sonnet 12

Sonnet 17

Sonnet 25

Sonnet 27

Sonnet 31

Sonnet 41

Sonnet 58

Sonnet 63

Sonnet 66

SONNETS, 1605

Sonnet 43

Sonnet 46

Sonnet 47

Sonnet 50

Sonnet 51

Sonnet 57

Sonnet 58

To Sir Walter Aston, Knight of the honourable order of the Bath, and my most worthy Patron

SONNETS, 1619

SONNET 1

SONNET 6

SONNET 8

His Remedie for Loue

SONNET 21

SONNET 27

SONNET 36

SONNET 48

SONNET 52

SONNET 61

ODES, 1619

TO HIMSELFE AND THE HARPE

The Phocean it did proue

TO THE NEW YEERE

TO HIS VALENTINE

THE HEART

THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO

TO CVPID

AN AMOVRET ANACREONTICK

LOVES CONQVEST

TO THE VIRIGINIAN VOYAGE

AN ODE WRITTEN IN THE PEAKE

HIS DEFENCE AGAINST THE IDLE CRITICK

TO HIS RIVALL

A SKELTONIAD

THE CRYER

TO HIS COY LOVE

A HYMNE TO HIS LADIES BIRTH-PLACE

TO THE CAMBRO-BRITANS AND THEIR HARPE, HIS BALLAD OF AGINCOVRT

ODES, 1606

ODE 4 TO MY WORTHY FREND, MASTER JOHN SAUAGE OF THE INNER TEMPLE

ODE 8

LAST VERSES

The Poems

LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Play

SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

THE PROLOGUE.

ACT I. SCENE I. Hereford. A street.

ACT I. SCENE II. Eltham. An antechamber in the palace.

ACT I. SCENE III. Kent. An outer court before lord Cobham’s house.

ACT II. SCENE I. The same.

ACT II. SCENE II. London. A room in the Axe Inn, without Bishop-gate.

ACT II. SCENE III. An audience-chamber in the palace at Eltham.

ACT III. SCENE I. An avenue leading to lord Cobham’s house in Kent.

ACT III. SCENE II. A road near Highgate.

ACT III. SCENE III. A high road in Kent.

ACT III. SCENE IV. Blackheath.

ACT IV. SCENE I. A field near London. King Henry’s camp.

ACT IV. SCENE II. A field of Battle near London.

ACT IV. SCENE III. Kent. Court before lord Cobham’s house.

ACT IV. SCENE IV. The entrance of the Tower.

ACT V. SCENE I. A room in lord Cobham’s house in Kent.

ACT V. SCENE II. A high road near St. Albans.

ACT V. SCENE III. St. Albans. The entrance of a carrier’s inn.

ACT V. SCENE IV. The same. A room in the carrier’s inn.

ACT V. SCENE V. The same. A street.

ACT V. SCENE VI. The same. Before the Carrier’s Inn. Enter Watch.

ACT V. SCENE VII. The same. The yard of the Inn.

ACT V. SCENE VIII. A wood near St. Albans.

ACT V. SCENE IX. St. Albans.

ACT V. SCENE X. Hertford. A Hall of Justice.

The Biography

MICHAEL DRAYTON by Cyril Brett

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