According to Oldys, Drayton appears to have been an agent in the
Scottish king's intercourse with his English friends; some unlucky
incident probably occurred, which might have indisposed the monarch
towards his humble friend. The unhappy result of his court to the new
sovereign cast a sour and melancholy humour over his whole life;
Drayton, in his "Elegy" to his brother-poet, Sandys, has perpetuated his
story.