Minor Poems of Michael Drayton - v. 129 Author:Michael Drayton Volume: v. 129 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Clarendon press Subjects: History / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has... more » no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Among the Panegyrical Verses before Coryat's Crudities (icTn). Incipit Michael Drayton. A briefe Prologue to the verses following. Deare Tom, thy booke was like to come to light, Ere I could gaine but one halfe howre to write ; They go before whose wits are at their noones, I come after bringing Salt and Sfoones. Many there be that write before thy Booke, For whom (except here) who could euer looke ? Thrice happy are all wee that had the Grace To haue our names set in this liuing place. Most worthy man, with thee it is euen thus, As men take Dottrels, so hast thou ta'n vs. Which as a man his arme or leg doth set, So this fond Bird will likewise counterfeit : Thou art the Fowler, and doest shew vs shapes And we are all thy Zanies, thy true ifes. t o I saw this age (from what it was at first) Swolne, and so bigge, that it was like to burst, Growne so prodigious, so quite out of fashion, That who will thriue, must hazard his damnation : Sweating in panges, sent such a horrid mist, As to dim heauen : I looked for Antichrist Or some new set of Diuels to sway hell, Worser then those, that in the Chaos fell : Wondring what fruit it to the world would bring, At length it brought forth this : O most strange thing ; 20 And with sore throwes, for that the greatest head Euer is hard'st to be deliuered. By thee wise Coryate we are taught to know, Great, with great men which is the wa...« less