By EDMUND SPENSER BOOK IV EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1596 WITH INTRODUCTION AND GLOSSARY BY KATE M. WARREN LIBR OF UNIV CALIFO WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS 1899 PREFACE THE text of this volume has been prepared from the quarto edition of 1596, with frequent reference to the folio of 1609 and later editions. In the preparation of the Glossary I have to acknowledge, as before, my obligation to many previous workers on the poem; to that friend of the student of language, the New English Dictionary; and to various personal friends who have kindly helped me by research and suggestion For many of the remarks upon the Irish rivers I am indebted to an article upon "Spenser's Rivers," by Mr. P. W. Joyce, in Fraser's Magazine for March, 1878. The frontispiece which accompanies the more expensive edition of the book is reproduced from a photograph taken by Mr. William Laurence, of Dublin. KATE M. WARREN. |