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The name "Kentish Longtails" seems to have been early current, and in Drayton's "Polyolbion" we find "Longtails and Liberty" given almost as a motto for the county. We are not told whether it was due to this miracle of the "tails," but it is certain that the conversion of the townspeople of Rochester must have been rapid, for we know that a see was founded here as early as 604.
Clifford flushed angrily at Drayton's words, but he had the grace to refrain from further remark. After all Captain Drayton ate but little. He trifled with the food, and was distrait and plainly ill at ease. Usually he enjoyed a tilt of words with Clifford, but after the first crossing of lances he said but little. The meal was over at length, and Drayton faced them as he rose from the table.
When he did, and before he could speak, the general was holding out some telegrams, and these too he took and read the almost agonized appeals of a mother for news of her boy the anxious inquiries, coupled with suggestions of the veteran soldier concerning the only son of a beloved sister. Drayton's fine, thoughtful face was full of sympathy his eyes clouded with anxiety and sorrow.
A few nights before they went off to the war, Judge Hampden and his son rode over together to Major Drayton's to offer the olive-branch of peace in shape of young Oliver and all that he possessed. Judge Hampden did not go all the way, for he had sworn never to put foot again in Major Drayton's house so long as he lived, and, moreover, he felt that his son would be the better ambassador alone.
Lastly, England's Helicon preserves two otherwise unknown poems of Drayton's, one probably an early work, having little to recommend it beyond the pretty though not original conceit: the other similar in style to the eclogue first published in the collection of c. 1606.
The feats performed by Arthur at the battle of Badon Mount are thus celebrated in Drayton's verse: "They sung how he himself at Badon bore, that day, When at the glorious goal his British sceptre lay; Two daies together how the battel stronglie stood; Pendragon's worthie son, who waded there in blood, Three hundred Saxons slew with his owne valiant hand." Song IV.
"Armstrong," said he, "you defended Gray and proved him innocent. What else has Canker against him?" "Nothing that I know of why?" "Because he's got him in arrest again at Honolulu, and the chief is worked up over something. Look here do you suppose did you ever hear about certain letters that were stolen from General Drayton's tent?" "I heard yes. Why?"
Their eyes looked at him with a shrewd hostility. He saw the young Yorkshire recruits drinking in the open spaces. Sergeants' eyes caught and measured him, appraising his physique. Behind and among them he saw Drayton's, and Réveillaud's, and Stephen's eyes; and young Wadham's eyes, strange and secretive and hard. At Reyburn Michael's train was switched off to a side platform in the open.
Did he see Harriet's voice, tremulous from a mist of tears in its laughter, broke in upon his musings. "And oh, John Drayton's hat," she was saying. "You should have seen it, Peggy. When we started this morning 'twas nearly straight. Oh, not entirely! That would be impossible. Somehow I could not take my eyes from it. The harder he rode the further on the side it got.
The plot involves two more or less connected threads of action, the one dealing with the adventures of the swains and shepherdesses, the other concerned with the progress of Thetis and her court. This latter recalls the poetic geography of Drayton's Polyolbion.
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