Englands heroicall epistles. By Michaell Drayton

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Title: Englands heroicall epistles. By Michaell Drayton
Author: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
Publication: At London :: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for N. Ling, and are to be sold at his shop at the vvest doore of Poules,; 1597.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- History -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Englands heroicall epistles. By Michaell Drayton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20814.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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Notes of the Chronicle historie.

THis Epistle of K, Iohn to Matilda, is much more poetical then historicall, making no mention at all of the occurrents of the time, or state, touching only his loue to her, & the extremity of his passions forced by his desires, rightly fashioning the humo of this King as it hath been truly noted by the best & most autenti∣call Writers, whose nature and disposition, is truliest discerned in the course of his loue; first resting at the ceremonies of the ser∣uices of those tymes, then going about by all strong and pro∣bable arguments, to reduce her to pleasures and delights, next with promises of honour, which he thinketh to be last and grea∣test meane, and to haue greatest power in her sexe; with promise of calling home of her friends, which he thought might be a great inducement to his desires.