| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 42. Some men there be, which like my method well | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1594 (No. 28), and in all later editions.] |
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SOME men there be, which like my method well, | |
| And much commend the strangeness of my vein. | |
| Some say I have a passing pleasing strain, | |
| Some say that in my humour I excel. | |
| Some, who not kindly relish my conceit, | 5 |
| They say, as poets do I use to feign, | |
| And in bare words paint out my Passions’ pain. | |
| Thus sundry men, their sundry minds repeat. | |
| I pass not, I, how men affected be! | |
| Nor who commends or discommends my Verse! | 10 |
| It pleaseth me, if I my woes rehearse! | |
| And in my lines, if She, my love may see! | |
| Only my comfort still consists in this; | |
| Writing her praise, I cannot write amiss! | | | |
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