Volume of poems by Michael Drayton

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MS. Eng. e. 3027

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All of these poems were first published in the 1619 folio edition of Drayton's Poems. With (fols. 7-8) five odes, all of which were first published in the 1619 folio edition of Drayton's Poems and (fols. 14-17) are blank. Comprising:

(fols. 3-5v) the last 30 stanzas of Pierce Gaveston

(fol. 6) an abbreviated version of the general preface to the Legends

(fols. 7-8) five odes, all of which were first published in the 1619 folio edition of Drayton's Poems

(fol. 7) 'The heart', beginning 'If thus we need must goe'
(fol. 7r-v) 'The Crier', beginning 'Good folke for gold or hire'
(fol. 7v) 'A Canzonet to his coy Love', beginning 'I pray thee leave, love me no more'
(fol. 7v) 'To his Rivall', beginning 'Her lov'd I most'
(fol. 8) 'The Sceletoniad', beginning 'The muse shou'd be sprightly'

The volume also contains (fol. 10) a copy of a poem, in a different, possibly later, hand, by Edmund Waller, 'To the King on his navy', beginning 'Where 'ere thy navy spreads her canvas wings'. This appears in the first edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1645), and in MS. Don. d. 55 (copied c. 1640). The version in this manuscript lacks lines 5-6 and 9-16 as produced in these versions.

The first and last leaves are signed by John Sayce.