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114 Fell was he and eager bent, In a battle and in tournament, As was the good Sir Topas. He had as antique stories tell, A daughter cleaped Dowsabel"

and so forth. We cannot pass the sixth Eclogue without feeling quite sure that Drayton's sympathies would be with Gorbo in the invitation to Winken:

So did a gracious nature assert itself, and Fashion, who may well dispute with Love the sovereignty of court, and camp, and grove, sided with that nature, and urged the poet now and then to write as