ABSTRACT
From Michael Drayton, ‘To my most dearely loued friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie, in the section of ‘Elegies Vpon Svndry Occasions’in the collection of poems including The Battle of Agincourt etc. (1627), p. 205, by the poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631). S.T.C. 7190.
They with the Muses which conuersed, were
That Princely Surrey, early in the time
Of the Eight Henry, who was then the prime
Of Englands noble youth; with him there came
Wyat; with reuerence whom we still doe name
Amongst our Poets, Brian 1 had a share
With the two former, which accompted are
That times best makers, and the authors were
Of those small poems, which the title beare,
Of songs and sonnets, wherein oft they hit
On many dainty passages of wit.
