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Quotation by Michael Drayton
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AgincourtIdeaIdea Idea: in Sixty-three Sonnets (1619), repr. in Works, vol. 2, ed. J. William Hebel (1932)The Shepherd's Garland (1593)To Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy (1627)Related Subjects
love (4) vanity (3) praise (2) poetry (1) hypocrisy (1) poets (1) sun (1) posterity (1) royalty (1) beauty (1)
But you broke into heaven's immortal store,
Where virtue, honor, wit, and beauty lay;
Which taking thence you have escaped away,
Yet stand as free as ere you did before;
Where virtue, honor, wit, and beauty lay;
Which taking thence you have escaped away,
Yet stand as free as ere you did before;
Michael Drayton (1563–1631), British poet. Idea (sonnet 4, l. 9–12). . .
Anchor Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Verse, The. Richard S. Sylvester, ed. (1974) Doubleday Anchor Books.
Anchor Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Verse, The. Richard S. Sylvester, ed. (1974) Doubleday Anchor Books.
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