Authority Cited: Drayton
Author name and dates: Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
BKG Bio-tweet: Prolific and successful pastoral, historical, epic, and topographical poet; favored under Q. Elizabeth
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary): [BKG Note: about 24 Drayton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 65 Drayton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Six Drayton cites were identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, indicates that 92 Drayton cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. A sample of the added Drayton headword cites is indicated in bold italic below. In The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., item 356 is 2. Drayton's Works 1748. . . .]
The works of Michael Drayton, Esq; A Celebrated Poet in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I. and Charles I. Containing, I. The Battle of Agincourt. II. The Barons Wars. III. England's Heroical Epistles. IV. The Miseries of Queen Margaret, the Unfortunate Wife of the most Unfortunate King Henry VI. V. Nymphidia: or the Court of Fairy. VI. The Moon-Calf. Vii. The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the Fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell E. of Essex. Viii. The Quest of Cynthia. IX. The Shepherd's Sirena. X. Poly-Olbion, with the Annotations of the learned Selden. XI. Elegies on several Occasions. XII. Ideas. Being all the writings of that celebrated author, now first collected into one volume, 1748, London : printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and sold by R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall; J. Jolliffe in St. James's-Street; and W. Reeve in Fleet-Street. Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (pp. 99-101) deduces that SJ used the 1748 edition for the 1st Dictionary edition quotations from Nymphidia and Quest of Cinthia. (The earlier Drayton edition of Poems that included these poems was 1631-1632.) [BKG Note: another possible source for the first edition quotations, which appears to have the same text, is the 1753 edition. The Drayton page citations below are to the 1748 edition.]
Author name and dates: Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
BKG Bio-tweet: Prolific and successful pastoral, historical, epic, and topographical poet; favored under Q. Elizabeth
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary): [BKG Note: about 24 Drayton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 65 Drayton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Six Drayton cites were identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, indicates that 92 Drayton cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. A sample of the added Drayton headword cites is indicated in bold italic below. In The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., item 356 is 2. Drayton's Works 1748. . . .]
The works of Michael Drayton, Esq; A Celebrated Poet in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I. and Charles I. Containing, I. The Battle of Agincourt. II. The Barons Wars. III. England's Heroical Epistles. IV. The Miseries of Queen Margaret, the Unfortunate Wife of the most Unfortunate King Henry VI. V. Nymphidia: or the Court of Fairy. VI. The Moon-Calf. Vii. The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the Fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell E. of Essex. Viii. The Quest of Cynthia. IX. The Shepherd's Sirena. X. Poly-Olbion, with the Annotations of the learned Selden. XI. Elegies on several Occasions. XII. Ideas. Being all the writings of that celebrated author, now first collected into one volume, 1748, London : printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and sold by R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall; J. Jolliffe in St. James's-Street; and W. Reeve in Fleet-Street. Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (pp. 99-101) deduces that SJ used the 1748 edition for the 1st Dictionary edition quotations from Nymphidia and Quest of Cinthia. (The earlier Drayton edition of Poems that included these poems was 1631-1632.) [BKG Note: another possible source for the first edition quotations, which appears to have the same text, is the 1753 edition. The Drayton page citations below are to the 1748 edition.]
- An Amouret Anacreontic; Quoted in the Dict. "Grammar of the English Tongue," Yale Vol. 18, p.351 and work identified at n.8. No citations of this work in the Dict. word list have been identified (p.420 of the 1748 edition).
- An Ode Written in the Peake; Quoted in the Dict. "Grammar of the English Tongue," Yale Vol. 18, p.351-353 and work identified at n.2. No citations of this work in the Dict. word list have been identified (p.421 of the 1748 edition).
- Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy; quoted under balk; bent; bolt; brier (p.165 per Watkins), chooser; curvet (p.166 per Watkins), diswitted; earwig; either; firedrake; gossamer; hay; lunary; mare; marsh; molewarp; mortise; mounter; nut; oaf; pile; poke; quick; second; span (p.167 per Watkins); spin; stump; token; trifle; wage; wherry; wretch; yell. Nymphidia not marked in the 1748 Works used for the 4th ed. per Reddick (224)
- Quest of Cynthia; quoted under checker; consecrate (p.226 per Watkins); distil; freckled; simple; siruped; sleave (p.226 per Watkins); wayless;
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine in England's Heroical Epistles; citations to "Drayton" include: dade (p.128); trick (p.128);
- Poly-Olbion; source of 4th ed. additions, per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (116, 135, 221, 224). The marked Drayton's Works, ed. William Oldys, 1748, is at the Beineke Library, Yale. This work is also quoted in the Dict. "Grammar of the English Tongue," Yale Vol. 18, pp. 355-356. Per Reddick, p.224, 1773 Dict. citations (to "Drayton") include: queachy; rap; rillet. BKG additions: nymphish (p.249); quarre (p.238); queachy (2 added in 1773 Dict.,: p.254; p.246); riveret (p.264, p.271); spadebone (p.262); thick (p.250); tinny (p.238);
- Drayton (no work cited); brim (C. p.226); candy (C. p.226); cloth; cordage; elvish; fet (C. p.226); gird; glebe; glove (N. p.165); greave; jet (C. p.226); knight (N. p.168); lout; mesh; pearly; pied (py'd, N. p.162); pigwidgeon (pigwiggon, N. p.162); pother (N. p.168); proud (inexact quote, P-O, p.300); recourseful; ruff; scale (N. p.166); screechowl; scuffle; skip (N. p.164); sleek (C. p.223); sluttery; spider; splenish; squirrel; sting; stubbed; sup (N. p.168); vervain (N. p.165); vileness (C. p.227); vilify (N. p.167); wasp; wondrously (N. p.168).