[Footnote 5:  Elegy ix, p. 113.]

[Footnote 6:  Cf.  Morley’s ed. of Barons’ Wars, &c. (1887), p. 6.]

[Footnote 7:  Cf. E.H.  Ep. ‘Mat. to K.J.,’ 100 sqq., &c.]

[Footnote 8:  Professor Courthope and others.  There was some excuse for blunders before the publication of Professor Elton’s book; and they have been made easier by an unfortunate misprint.  Professor Courthope twice misprints the first line of the Love-Parting Sonnet, as ’Since there’s no help, come let us rise and part’, and, so printed, the line supports better the theory that the poem refers to a patroness and not to a mistress.  Cf.  Courthope, Hist.  Eng.  Poetry, iii. pp. 40 and 43.]

[Footnote 9:  Cf. E. and Phoebe, sub fin.; Shep.  Sir. 145-8; Ep.  Hy.  Reyn. 79 sqq.]

[Footnote 10:  Those reprints which were really new editions are in italics.]

[Footnote 11:  1594 ed., Pref.  Son. and nos. 12, 18, 28; 1599 ed., nos. 3, 31, 46; 1602 ed., 12, 27, 31; and 1603 ed., 47.]

[Footnote 12:  Meres thought otherwise.  Cf. Palladis Tamia (1598), ’As Accius, M. Atilius, and Milithus were called Tragediographi, because they writ tragedies:  so may wee truly terme Michael Drayton Tragaediographus for his passionate penning the downfals of valiant Robert of Normandy, chast Matilda, and great Gaueston.’  Cf.  Barnefield, Poems:  in diuers humors (ed.  Arber, p. 119), ’And Drayton, whose wel-written Tragedies, | And Sweete Epistles, soare thy fame to skies. | Thy learned name is equall with the rest; | Whose stately Numbers are so well addrest.’]

[Footnote 13:  Cf.  Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598), ’Michael Drayton doth imitate Ouid in his England’s Heroical Epistles.’]

[Footnote 14:  Cf. id., ibid., ’As Lucan hath mournefully depainted the ciuil wars of Pompey and Caesar:  so hath Daniel the ciuill wars of Yorke and Lancaster, and Drayton the civill wars of Edward the second and the Barons.’]

[Footnote 15:  Cf.  Elegy viij. 126-8.]

[Footnote 16:  Cf.  Morley’s ed., Barons’ Wars, &c., 1887, pp. 6-7.]

[Footnote 17:  Cf.  Elron, pp. 83-93, and Whitaker, M.  Drayton as a Dramatist (Public.  Mod.  Lang.  Assoc. of America, vol. xviij. 3).]

[Footnote 18:  Cf. Nl. ij. 127 sqq., p. 172.]

[Footnote 19:  Cf.  Elegy ij. 20.]

[Footnote 20:  Cf. Palladis Tamia:  ’Michael Drayton is now in penning, in English verse, a Poem called Poly-olbion, Geographicall & Hydrographicall of all the forests, woods, mountaines, fountaines, riuers, lakes, flouds, bathes, & springs that be in England.’]

[Footnote 21:  Cf. Amours (1594), xx and xxiv.]

[Footnote 22:  Cf.  Sonnet vj (1619 edition); which is a dignified summary of much that he says more coarsely in the Moone-Calfe.]