| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 6. How many paltry foolish painted Things | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1619.]
HOW many paltry foolish painted Things, | |
| That now in coaches trouble every street, | |
| Shall be forgotten (whom no Poet sings) | |
| Ere they be well wrapped in their winding sheet! | |
| Where I, to thee Eternity shall give! | 5 |
| When nothing else remaineth of these days. | |
| And Queens hereafter shall be glad to live | |
| Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise. | |
| Virgins and matrons, reading these my rhymes, | |
| Shall be so much delighted with thy Story, | 10 |
| That they shall grieve they lived not in these Times, | |
| To have seen Thee, their sex’s only glory! | |
| So shalt thou fly above the vulgar throng, | |
| Still to survive in my immortal Song. | | | | |
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