"[T]hat matchlesse Poem, The Faery Queen, written by our English Virgil."
— Edmund Spenser

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Kenelm Digby, Observations on the 22. Stanza in the 9th Canto of the 2d. Book of Spencers Faery Queen (1644), quoted in The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. The Faerie Qveene: Book Two, ed. Edwin Greenlaw (1933), p. 472