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[Transcriber's Note:

This e-text comes in three different forms: unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and
ASCII-7. Use the one that works best on your text reader.

  --If "oe" displays as a single character, and apostrophes and
  quotation marks are "curly" or angled, you have the utf-8 version
  (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try
  changing your text reader's "character set" or "file encoding".
  If that doesn't work, proceed to:
  --In the Latin-1 version, "oe" is two letters, but French words like
  "etude" have accents and "ae" is a single letter. Apostrophes and
  quotation marks will be straight ("typewriter" form). Again, if you
  see any garbage in this paragraph and can't get it to display
  properly, use:
  --The ascii-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be
  there; it just won't be as pretty.

In the main text, stanza numbers were added by the transcriber to aid
in cross-references to the Notes. They are not present in the original.
Stanzas 64-78 (pages 29-33) have labeled notes instead of the regular
full-stanza sidenotes. The identifying letters are unchanged; the notes
are placed at the end of each stanza, instead of at the beginning like
the sidenotes.

Errors and inconsistencies are listed at the end of the text, along with
a few lines containing characters that may not display correctly on your
text reader.]




[_The portrait of Michael Drayton given here as a frontispiece is from a
picture, taken at