's special master,

{104a} See Drummond's _Poems_, ed. W. C. Ward, in Muses' Library, 1894,
i. 207 seq.

{104b} Seve's _Delie_ was first published at Lyons in 1544.

{104c} 1530-1579.

{105} In two of his century of sonnets (Nos. xiii. and xxiv. in 1594
edition, renumbered xxxii. and liii. in 1619 edition) Drayton hints that
his 'fair Idea' embodied traits of an identifiable lady of his
acquaintance, and he repeats the hint in two other short poems; but the
fundamental principles of his sonnetteering exploits are defined
explicitly in Sonnet xviii. in 1594 edition.

Some, when in rhyme, they of their loves do tell, . . .
Only I call [_i.e._ I call only] on my divine Idea.

Joachim du Bellay, one of the French poets who anticipated Drayton in
addressing sonnets to 'L'Idee,' left the reader in no doubt of his intent
by concluding one poem thus:

La, o mon ame, au plus hault ciel guidee,
Tu y pourras recognoistre l'Idee
De la beaute qu'en ce monde j'adore.

(Du Bellay's _Olive_, No. cxiii., published in 1568.)

{106a} Ben Jonson pointedly noticed the artifice inherent in the
metrical principles of the sonnet when he told Drummond of Hawthornden
that 'he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said
were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked,
others too long cut short.' (Jonson's _Conversation_, p. 4).

{106b} See p. 121 _infra_.

{107a} They were first printed by Dr. Grosart for the Chetham Society in
1873 in his edition of 'the Dr. Farmer MS.,' a sixteenth and seventeenth
century commonplace book preserved in the Chetham Library at Manchester,
pt. i. pp. 76-81. Dr. Grosart also included the poems in his edition of
Sir John Davies's _Works_, 1876, ii. 53-62.

{107b} Davies's Sonnet viii. is printed in Appendix IX.

{107c} See p. 127 _infra_.

{108} _Romeo and Juliet_, II. iv. 41-4.

{110} Mr. Fleay in his _Biographical Chronicle of the English Stage_,
ii. 226 seq., gives a striking list of parallels between Shakespeare's
and Drayton's sonnets which any reader of the two collections in
conjunction could easily increase. Mr. Wyndham in his valuable edition
of Shakespeare's _Sonnets_, p. 255, argues that Drayton was the
plagiarist of Shakespeare, chiefly on bibliographical grounds, which he
does not state quite accurately. One hundred sonnets belonging to
Drayton's _Idea_ series are extant, but they were not all published