[Illustration:
EFFIGIES MICHAELIS DRAYTON ARMIGERI, POETAE CLARISS.
AETAT. SVAE L. A. CHR. [M].DC.XIII
_Lux Hareshulla tibi Warwici villa, tenebris,
Ante tuas Cunas, obsita Prima fuit.
Arma, Viros, Veneres, Patriam modulamine dixti:
Te Patriae resonant Arma, Viri, Veneres._]
THE
BATTAILE
OF
AGINCOVRT.
FOVGHT BY HENRY THE
fift of that name, King of _England_,
against the whole power of the _French_:
vnder the Raigne of their CHARLES
the sixt, _Anno Dom._ 1415.
The Miseries of Queene MARGARITE,
the infortunate VVife, of that most
infortunate King Henry the sixt.
NIMPHIDIA, the Court of _Fayrie_.
The Quest of CINTHIA.
The Shepheards SIRENA.
The _Moone-Calfe_.
Elegies vpon sundry occasions.
_By MICHAELL DRAYTON
Esquire_.
_LONDON_,
Printed for WILLIAM LEE, at the Turkes Head
in Fleete-Streete, next to the Miter and Phaenix.
1627.
[_The preceding page is a reduced reproduction of the title-page of the
first edition, which contains, as will be seen, several poems besides
"The Battaile of Agincourt" which are not included in the present
reprint._]
_To you those Noblest of Gentlemen, of these Renowned Kingdomes of Great
Britaine: who in these declining times, haue yet in your braue bosomes
the sparkes of that sprightly fire, of your couragious Ancestors; and to
this houre retaine the seedes of their magnanimitie and Greatnesse, who
out of the vertue of your mindes, loue and cherish neglected Poesie, the
delight of Blessed soules, and the language of Angels. To you are these
my Poems dedicated,_
_By your truly affectioned Seruant,_