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Title: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

Author: Edmund Spenser

Release Date: January 5, 2004 [EBook #10602]

Language: English

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

EDMUND SPENSER.

VOLUME V.

M.DCCC.LX.

CONTENTS

OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

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MISCELLANIES.

Complaints

The Ruines of Time
The Teares of the Muses
Virgils Gnat
Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale
Ruines of Rome: by Bellay
Muiopotmos: or the Fate of the Butterflie
Visions of the Worlds Vanitie
The Visions of Bellay
The Visions of Petrarch

Daphnaida

Amoretti

Epithalamion

Prothalamion

Fowre Hymnes

Epigrams

Sonnets

APPENDIX.

I. Variations from the Original Editions

II. Two Letters from Spenser to Harvey

III. Index of Proper Names

* * * * *

MISCELLANIES.

COMPLAINTS.

CONTAINING SUNDRIE SMALL POEMES OF THE
WORLDS VANITIE:

WHEREOF THE NEXT PAGE MAKETH MENTION.

BY ED. SP.

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LONDON:

IMPRINTED FOR WILLIAM PONSONBIE, DWELLING IN PAULES
CHURCHYARD AT THE SIGNE OF THE BISHOPS HEAD.

1591.

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A NOTE OF THE SUNDRIE POEMES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.

1. The Ruines of Time.

2. The Teares of the Muses.

3. Virgils Gnat.

4. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale.

5. The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay.

6. Muiopotmos, or The Tale of the Butterflie.

7. Visions of the Worlds Vanitie.

8. Bellayes Visions.

9. Petrarches Visions.

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THE PRINTER TO THE GENTLE READER.

Since my late setting foorth of the Faerie Queene, finding that it hath
found a favourable passage amongst you, I have sithence endevoured by
all good meanes, (for the better encrease and accomplishment of your
delights,) to get into