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IDEA: 42 by MICHAEL DRAYTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SOME MEN THERE BE, WHICH LIKE MY METHOD WELL
Last Line: WRITING HER PRAISE I CANNOT WRITE AMISS.
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 im my humor I excel;
Some, who not kindly relish my conceit,
They say, as poets do, I use to feign,
And in bare words paint out my passion's pain.
Thus sundry men their sundry words repeat;
I pass not, I, how men affected be,
Nor who commends or discommends my verse;
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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