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Title: Spenser
(English Men of Letters Series)

Author: R. W. Church

Release Date: January 27, 2010 [EBook #31101]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been
left as in the original. Some typographical and punctuation errors have
been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Words in Greek in the
original are transliterated and placed between =equal signs=. Words
italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. Words in
bold in the original are surrounded by +plus signs+. Characters inside
{braces} are superscripted in the original. In quoted material, a row of
asterisks represents an ellipsis. Ellipses match the original.

SPENSER

BY

R. W. CHURCH,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S,
HONORARY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1879

_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved._

NOTICE.

As the plan of these volumes does not encourage footnotes, I wish to say
that, besides the biographies prefixed to the various editions of
Spenser, there are two series of publications, which have been very
useful to me. One is the series of Calendars of State Papers, especially
the State Papers on Ireland and the Carew MSS. at Lambeth, with the
prefaces of Mr. Hans Claude Hamilton and the late Professor Brewer. The
other is Mr. E. Arber's series of reprints of old English books, and his
Transcript of the Stationers' Registers, a work, I suppose, without
parallel in its information about the early literature of a country, and
edited by him with admirable care and public spirit. I wish also to say
that I am much indebted to Mr. Craik's excellent little book o