Michael Drayton:
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Famous Michael Drayton Quotes
“Had in him those brave translunary things
That the first poets had.”
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627), referring to Christopher Marlowe.
“For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.”
To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy (1627).
“Oh, when shall English men
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?”
Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 117-120.
Michael Drayton Quotes
“Victor I will remain
Or on this earth lie slain,
Never shall she sustain
Loss to redeem me.”
Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 37-40.
Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 1-8.
“Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.”
Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 29-32.
