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“So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.”

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Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton was an English poet, born in 1563 and died on December 23, 1631. His poetry works were extensive, including epic, lyric, and satirical poems, and he was a representative figure of the Elizabethan era and the reign of James I. more

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