2 Help then, O holy Virgin, chiefe of nine, Thy weaker Novice to performe thy will: Lay forth out of thine everlasting scrine The antique rolles, which there lie hidden still, Of Faerie Knights, and fairest Tanaquill, Whom that most noble Briton Prince so long Sought through the world, and suffered so much ill, That I must rue his undeserved wrong: O! help thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tongue. A2 Canto O,I the man,whose Muse whilom did mask, As time her taught, in lowely Shepheards Am now enforcâ€™t a far unfitter task, (weeds, For trumpets stern to change mine oaten reeds, And sing of Knights, & Ladies gentle deeds Whose praises having slept in silence long, Mee, all to meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon 'broad, amongat her learned throng: Fierce warres, and faithful loves, shall moralize my song.

4 And with them eke, O Goddesse heavenly bright, Mirrour of grace and Majestie divine, Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine, Shed thy faire beames into my feeble eyne, And raise my thoughts, too humble, and too vile, To think of that true glorious type of thine, The argument of mine afflicted stile: The which to heare, vouchsafe, O dearest dread a-while. And thou most dreaded impe of highest Jove, Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart At that good Knight so cunningly didst rove, That glorious fire it kindled in his hart, Lay now thy deadly Heben bowe apart, And with thy mother mildc come to mine ayde: Come both, and with you bring triumphant Mart, In loves and gentle jollities arrayd, After his murdrous spoiles and bloody rage allayd. THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE: CONTAINING THE LEGEND OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR Of Holinesse. Folio, the woodcut border to the title and the next leaf slightly shaved at fore-edge, a rather large wormhole through the inner margin of the last 20 or so leaves but a fine copy in seventeenth century red morocco, gilt, gilt edges. Spenser: Colle&ed into one Volume and carefully corre&ed. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together With The Other Works of England’s Arch-Poet Edm. This edition is supposed to have been edited by Spenser’s friend Gabriel Harvey, and contains the Baconian title-page with figures of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth and the hog. The Hoe Copy was a later issue, with some of the title-pages dated 1617. An Elegie, or Friends Passion ,for his Astrophell-Prothalamion, 1611-Amoretti, 1611-Epithalamion, 1611-Four Hymnes, 1611-Daphnaida, 1611 Complaints, 1611-The Tears of the Muses, 1611-Virgil’s Gnat, n.d.-The Ruins of Rome, Mviopotmos, 1611-Visions of the World-etc. Pastoral upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney. Shepherds Calendar, 1611-Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, n.d.-The Mourning Muse of Thcstylis. Contents: Fairy Queen-Prosopoia, or Mother Hubbard’s Tale, 1613-The. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF SPENCER’S WORKS. Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. THE FAERIE QVEEN: Shepheards Calendar : T ogether 10716 WITH THE OTHER Works of England’s Arch-Poet, EDM.

first sight to be a reissue of that of 1609, aund on close comparison that there are fferences throughout.” title is supposed by Baconians to have lg oh their theory of the authorship of Pickering & Chatto, 1, King Street, St. Sayle, I, Lowndes, 2477 : “ Todd believes the vjduuci ntuvcy, opcubci particular 1 lazlitt, H., 573 'I, 399. and to the sonnets are prefixed two tory poems by G. copy, a in the copy of first issue is dated 1613, leard’s Calendar is prefaced by E. 2nd issue, with -1612, and third, with mixed dates, 1611- Very often these three issues are for instance, in the Br. There ssues of this edition : 1st, All parts dated 1 exception of Prosopopoia, or Mother Tale, which is dated 1612, and no copy is ith date 1611 throughout.

O er(Edmund), 1611-12 : ISSUE OF SECOND FOLIO.

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