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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