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Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 by Various
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DRAYTON'S POEMS.

In addition to the notes on Drayton by Dr. Farmer, communicated in your
2nd number, the following occurs in a copy of Drayton's _Poems_, printed
for Smithwicke, in 1610, 12mo.:--

"See the _Return from Parnassus_ for a good character of
Drayton.

"See an _Epigram_ by Drayton, I suppose, prefixed to Morley's
first _Booke of Balletes_.

"A Sonnet to _John Davies_, before his _Holy Roode, or Christ's
Crosse_, 4to. (1610). A Poem in 6 line stanzas.

"Another to the old edit. of _Wit's Commonwealth_.

"Commendatory Verses before Chapman's _Hesiod_.

"Sonnet to Ant. Mundy's 2nd Book of _Primation of Greece_, 1619.

"His _Heroical Epistles_ were newly enlarged and republished in
8vo. 1598; which is the most antient edition we have seen or
read of.--[_Bodl. Cat._]--_Biographia his Art_.

"Another edition, _as we have heard_, in 1610.--Ibid.

"See Merc's _Wit's Treasury_, p. 281. A modern edition was
published by _Oldmixon_.--Cibber's _Lives_, 4. 204.
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