E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Drayton, Michael
(b. Hartshill, near Atherston, Warwickshire, 1563; d. 1631). “Polyolbion” (1612–22); “The Barons’ Wars;” “England’s Heroical Epistles;” “The Man in the Moone;” “Endimion and Phœbe;” “Idea;” “The Shepherd’s Garland.” “Matilda;” “Mortimeriados;” “The Owle:” “The Battle of Agincourt” (1627), “The Muses Elizium;” “Piers Gaveston;” “Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy;”
and other works, collected in 1752, with “An Historical Essay on his Life and Writings.” See Hooper’s edition of “Works” (1876).
