PREFACE. In the present edition of Edmund Spenser's works no attempt has been made The prose Treatise on Ireland, as printed by Sir James Ware, and followed The edition of 1596 and all subsequent ones read- 'I will withdraw me to some darksome place, Some editors have proposed to read dreere for deere, but deepe, the lection of the first edition, is in- + The title itself as given by Ware is incorrectly stated. All the manuscripts, as well as the entry The text itself is from the Additional Manuscript, 22022, the oldest of the In compiling the Glossary I have endeavoured to make it as complete In Appendix II. will be found Spenser's Letters to Gabriel Harvey, reprinted AUGUST, 1869. R. M. |