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Drayton (Michael), 1563-1631 
Drayton, the poet, who comes within the scope of this 
work on account of the mention of birds in his Poly-olbion 
(Pt. II., 1622) cannot, of course, be classed as an ornithologist, 
and his life has been so often dealt with elsewhere that its 
inclusion here is quite unnecessary. He was born at Harts- 
hill, near Atherston, Warwickshire, in 1563 ; died in 1631 ; 
and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a well-known 
monument, erected to him by the Countess of Dorset, exists. 
The first part of the work undernoted was originally 
issued in 1612 (folio, 303 pp.) with the title Poly-olbion , and 
was again issued in 1613 with a dated and more extended 
letterpress title added, commencing Poly-olbion, or a Choro- 
graphicall Description, etc., also table of contents. The 
Second Part, however, with which we are concerned, did not 
appear until 1622, the whole work being published in that 
year with the title Poly-olbion dropped on the general title, 
although the title to the Second Part runs, The Second Part, 
or a Continuance of Poly-olbion from the Eighteenth Song, etc. 
1622. A | Chorographicall | Description of all | the tracts, Rivers, | 
Mountains, Forests, | and other Parts of this Renowned | Isle of 
Great Britain, | With intermixture of the most Remarkable | 
Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, | and Commo- 
dities of the same. | Divided into two Bookes ; the latter con- 
taining | twelue Songs, neuer before Imprinted. | Digested into 
a Poem | By | Michael Drayton, Esquire. | With a Title added, 
for direction to those Occurrences | of Story and Antiquitie, 
whereunto the Course of the | Volume easily leades not. | 
[Device.] | London, | Printed for John Marriott, John Grismond, 
| and Thomas Dewe, 1622. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. fol. pp. xx un. + pp. 303, with folding] 
maps. Pt. II., pp. x un. + pp. 168, with folding maps. 
“ The five and twentieth Song,” pp. 105-13, deals with the 
Birds of the Lincolnshire Fens. 
1844. On the Birds of Lincolnshire and its Fens. With notes by W. 
Yarrell. (Ann. and Mag. N.H., 1844, pp. 228-31.) Reprinted 
from the 25th Song of the Poly-olbion. 
Idem. With Notes by John Cordeaux. (Naturalist, 1886, 
pp. 363-8.) 
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