Front matter

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[The portrait of Michael Drayton given here as a frontispiece is from a picture, taken at the age of sixty-five (three years before he died), in the Cartwright Collection at the Dulwich Gallery. The name of the painter is not known, but the picture is signed “An^o 1628.”]

Michael Drayton

THE BATTAILE OF AGINCOURT BY MICHAEL DRAYTON: WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY RICHARD GARNETT

LONDON PRINTED AND ISSUED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM & CO AT THE CHISWICK PRESS MDCCCXCIII

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Introduction vii

Drayton’s Dedication 3

Upon the Battaile of Agincourt, by I. Vaughan 5

Sonnet to Michael Drayton, by John Reynolds 7

The Vision of Ben Jonson on the Muses of his Friend M. Drayton 9

The Battaile of Agincourt 13

To my Frinds the Camber-Britans and theyr Harp 93

Illustrative Notes 101