English poem
Prefixed to John Davies of Hereford; Holy Roode (1609). - To M. IOHN DAVIES, my good friend.
Such men as hold intelligence with Letters, And in that nice and Narrow way of Verse, As oft they lend, so oft they must be Debters, If with the Muses they will haue commerce: Seldome at Stawles, me, this way men rehearse, To mine Inferiours, not unto my Betters: He stales his Lines that so doeth them disperse; I am so free, I loue not Golden-fetters. And many Lines fore Writers, be but Setters To them which cheate with Papers; which doth pierse, Our Credits: when we shew our selues Abetters: To those that wrong our knowledge: we rehearse Often (my good Iohn; and I loue) thy Letters; Which lend me Credit, as I lend my Verse.
More by Michael Drayton
- Play with your fancies, and in them behold
- Prefixed to Book ij. of Primaleon, &c. Translated by Anthony Munday (1619). - OF THE WORKE and Translation.
- Prefixed to Chapman's Translation of Hesiod's Georgics (1618). - To my worthy friend Mr. George Chapman, and his translated Hesiod.
- Prefixed to Christopher Middleton's Legend of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester (1600). - To his friend, Master Chr. M. his Booke.
- Prefixed to Sir David Murray's Sophonisba &c. (1611). - To my kinde friend Da: Murray.
- Prefixed to William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals (1613). - To his Friend the AVTHOR.
- Sonet 1
- Sonet 10