THE

WORKS

OF THE

ENGLISH POETS,

FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER;

INCLUDING THE

SERIES EDITED,

WITH

PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON:

FRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON;
LEIGH AND SOTHEBY; R. FAULDER AND SON; G. NICOL AND SON; T. PAYNE; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND
ROBINSON; C. DAVIS; T. EGERTON; SCATCHerd and letteRMAN; J. WALKER; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE ;
R. LEA; J. NUNN; LACKINGTON, ALLEN AND CO.; J. STOCKDALE; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; CLARKE AND SONS;
J. WHITE AND CO; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. BARKER; JOHN RICHARDSON;
J. M. RICHARDSON; J. CARPENTER; B. CROSBY; E. JEFFERY; J. MURRAY; W. MILLER; J. AND A. ARCH; BLACK,
PARRY, AND KINGSBURY; J. BOOKER; S. BAGSTER; J. HARDING; J. MACKINLAY; J. HATCHARD; R. H. EVANS ;
MATTHEWS AND LEIGH; J. MAWMAN; J. BOOTH; J. ASPERNE; p. and W. WYNNE; AND W. GRACE. DEIGHTON
AND SON, CAMBRIDGE; AND WILSON AND SON, YORK.

1810.

CONTENTS.

POEMS OF DRAYTON.

THE BARONS' WArs, in the reign of king edward

II. IN SIX BOOKS.

Preface to the Reader........

Verses to Mr. Drayton, on his Poem of the

Barons' Wars

...

To the Reader

Verses to Mr. Drayton

Rosamond to King Henry

Henry to Rosamond...

King John to Matilda

Matilda to King John

Queen Isabel to Mortimer

Mortimer to Queen Isabel

...

ENGLAND'S HEROICAL EPISTLES.

VOL. IV.

Page
Vii

Edward, the Black Prince, to Alice, Countess

of Salisbury

Alice, Countess of Salisbury, to the Black

Prince.

........

Queen Isabel to King Richard II.

Richard II. to Queen Isabel

Queen Catharine to Owen Tudor

Owen Tudor to Queen Catharine

Elenor Cobham to Duke Humphrey..

Duke Humphrey to Elenor Cobham

William de la Pool, Duke of Suffolk, to Queen

Margaret....

xiii

3

ib.

ib.

5

25

26

ib.

31

45

49

Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Mary,

the French Queen

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady

Geraldine

The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard, Earl

of Surrey

100

The Lady Jane Gray to the Lord Gilford

Dudley

Gilford Dudley to the Lady Jane Gray.

A Catalogue of the Heroical Loves

The Miseries of Queen Margaret

Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy

The Moon-Calf

102

104

ib.

120

126

The Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy... 136

The Legend of Matilda the Fair

*****..

The Legend of Pierce Gaveston

143

........ 149

35

The Legend of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex 154

41 The Quest of Cynthia

The Shepherd's Sirena

169

163

6S

70

71

73

75

Queen Margaret to William de la Pool, Duke

of Suffolk

77

Edward IV. to Mrs. Shore
Mrs. Shore to Edward IV.

79

83

Preface

Song 1.

JI.

III.

IV.

V.

Mary, the French Queen, to Charles Brandon,
Duke of Suffolk

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

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XII.

XUI.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

81 XVIII.

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XIX.

XX.

THE POLY-OLBION.

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