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EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY

SPENSER

SPENSER

BY

R. W. CHURCH,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S,

HONORARY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE.

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1883

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.

BODLEIAN

20 MAR 1964

LIBRA

ELEVENTH THOUSAND

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 on Spenser and his Poetry.

March, 1879.

R. W. C.

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