A SELEC TION FROM TH E PO ETRY OF SAMUEL DAN IEL ’ 89 MICH A EL DR A Y T ON m W ith an Introd u tio and Notes by s g‘ v M A . Th e Re . O M L O N D O N EN . J . M . D T 8: C O 29 AND 30 BEDFORD STREET A SELEC TION FR OM TH E PO ETR Y OF SAMUE L D AN IE L ” 85 MICH A EL D RAY TON l ' W ith an Introd u tio and N ote s by g e09 ‘B M A . ev Q Y eech n . R . H C i The iE g , ’ L O N D O N M ENT C O . J . D 2 9 A ND 30 BED F ORD STREET MY O"FORD PUPILS CONTENTS IN TRODUCTION A SELECTION FROM THE POEMS OF SAMUEL DAN IEL Son n ets to Deli a From th e Compl ain t of Ros amon d From th e Trag edy of Cl eopatra From th e Ci vil W ars E i s tl e t o th e Lad Mar a et Coun te of Cum e l an d p y g r , ss b r From Mus oph il us From th e Epistl e to Si r Th omas Eg erton From th e Trag edy of Phil ota s Ulysses an d th e Siren ’ From th e Qu een s Arcad i a ’ From Tethys Fes ti val ’ From Hym en s Tri umph An Od e A SELECTION FROM THE POEMS OF MICHAEL DRAYTON ' Dafiadill From En dymi on an d Ph oebe viii Contents ’ From E n g l an d s Heroi cal Epistl es — ’ Th e Tower of Mortim er From th e B aron s W ars Id ea (Son n ets) To th e N ew Yea r To Hi s Val en ti n e Th e Heart To Master "oh n Savag e Th e Cri er To h i s Coy Lov e To hi s Ri val B all a d of Ag i n court To th e Virgi n i an Voy ag e An Od e W ri tten i n th e Peak From Poly - Olbi on (Mil ford H aven ) (Guy of W arwi ck) An El eg y — Ny mphidi a Th e Court of Fa iry ’ Th e Sh eph erd s Siren a ’ From th e Mu ses Ely si um Th e Secon d Nymph al Th e Sixth Nym ph al INTROD UCTION IF any a pology be required for brin gin g within the covers of a sin gle volume a selection from Dan a n d D a n m u Off i n both iel r yto , it st be ered a n a n t o th e circumstan ce th t occa sio ed it . H vi g lecture for th e Oxford School of Litera tu re upon the m n o E a e n u fin d n o i r liz b tha poets , I co ld text ’ of either Dan iel or Dra yton t o put in to my pu pils a n u en ha n ds Of Dr yton i deed Mr A . H . B ll u e an en n i n 1 8 8 3 hi s iss d excell t selectio , but n ow a s ca c a s ea C a n d book is s r e the rly opies , a m a s e n e n o m e n l ost xpe siv . The o ly ther od r ’ texts I kn ow are Hooper s reprin t of th e Poly ’ ’ OZbi on an d of th e B arons W ars a n d , Morley s a few e e e a efu n e t e re oth r pi c s, us l book, but i h r presen tative n or dis crimina tin g en ough for my 1 u Of Dan e e n n o on p rpose . i l there has b e editi n e e m of 1 7 1 8 an d n o si c the two littl volu es , s election but that of Mr John Morris in 1 8 55 e c e at a n t e e issu d to subs rib rs B th . U der h s cir cu ms tan ces Den n e u ca m , Mr t ge ro sly e to my e an d on en a m a h lp, c s ted to publish s ll book n a n n th c e em f te co t i i g e hoic po s o both wri rs . The association of the two is thus avowedly f but n n he ortuitous , it will not, I ve ture to thi k , 1 Dr Gros a rt m 1 8 8 5is s u ed a n editi on of 1 50c opi es for pri vate c i rcul ati on in wh i ch a n a ttem t was m ad e t o c olla te , p te xts . B u t th e n otes at th e en d f o thi s vol u me wi ll m ake cl ear th a t a. s ati s actor c oll ati on i s s till wan ti n f y g . b I n trod ucti on f n n t ound u reasonable or without a special i teres . n t m a e ea of They were co e por ri s , born within a y r e t f w c e ach other, and bo h re lect, ith haract ristic i n u peculiar ties , the i fl ences to which poetry was th e of subject at end the sixteenth century . A glanc e at th e table which follows this in trod uction will show that i n 1 592- 3 they were both writing s on n ets ; a little later they w ere both writin g “ ” e Mirror or L gends, on the model set by the f Ma is trates D ta n th e of Fair g , aniel ki g story Ros amon d D a of Pi ers Gaves ton , and r yton those an d tilda the has te Ma C . Later again both suc c umbed to the imp ulse to write Chronicle H D n n W ars o the Ros es istory , a iel choosi g the f , a n d Drayton th e W a rs of the B aron s under Edward II f th e e t . A ter this parall l, hough it n . conti ues , is less close Both wrote plays , but w D n an n e e of t hile rayto , in unexplai d p riod pover y ’ a t th e of E e n e end lizabeth s r ig , became a stag D e th e n a of hack, ani l , under patro ge the Herberts, wrote classical tragedies , with chorus , in the f B a a a for manner o Seneca . oth g in had taste a D wh o C p storal ; but aniel , held a post at ourt, m a for th e D n wrote stately sks Queen ; while rayto , after experimen ting in the style of the Shep heards Ca lender f n e , broke away rom conve tion altogeth r and wrote what are perhaps the only genuine e a F n a n pastorals in th langu ge . i lly we may ote that both wrote verse epistles to their contemporaries a n d i f Daniel compiled a History of En gland in D of E prose, rayton wrote a Geography ngland — Pol - Olbion i n n the y what can ot, without stretch ing the term , be called poetry . D if To the general reader, aniel, he is known I M Introd u cti on B u t n n e n n n . at all, is k ow by his So nets his So ts n n a re n ot his most distin guishi g productio s . They a re written in good lan guage a n d correct e a n d th e n n t m— E a m tre, so et rhy h as the liz n s n e i t— e e beth a u d rstood is w ll pr served . Also “ i n f u a en e. o they su lly op well , g . Still the trace ” on e e e an d e a perpl x d thought , it is p rh ps due to this fa ct tha t they are occasion ally men tioned in ’ a m e n n e t e Pe the s se te c wi h Shakespear s . rhaps “ a few like An d et I can n ot re rebend th e ” “ e a W we e th e flight, or Look, bli , HO steem ” “ lf wn e L th of kn i hts etm o ha lo ros , or, m m g ” a n d a n m n i n ladi s , ight i deed pass muster the a ea ean a n B ut f r secon Sh kesp r r k .