[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 Cæsar: so hath Daniel the ciuill wars of Yorke and Lancaster, and Drayton the civill wars of Edward the second and the Barons.']
[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 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.']