Printed in an edition limited to 50 numbered copies. The British poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631) wrote religious works, eclogues, love sonnets and mythological narratives. The Nymphidia, his most famous work, tells the story of the adventures of the jealous Oberon, the faithless Titiana and her lover Pigwiggen. The story is heavily influenced by Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Though it was written late in his life, at age sixty-four, the story is told in a fresh, new voice not found in his more grave earlier works. The text is infused with laughter and humor, the lines of verse light and lyric. The delightful cadence of the verse and the light-hearted voice of the narrator urge the reader on, making it difficult to stop reading once entering the text. Incidentally, this is the source of the common phrase "the coast is clear." Nicholas Parry's sketchy watercolors are other-worldly, whimsical and imaginative. Watercolors printed by N.S.P. on Magnani paper. Colophon signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry.