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" The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... "
Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 293
by Irishman - 1840
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Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser

Christopher Burlinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 286 pages
...Which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for profite of the ensample. After discussing his use of the 'antique Poets' as models, he continues:...
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The Faerie Queene, Volume 1

Edmund Spenser - 562 pages
...Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for profite of the ensample: I chose the historye of king Arthure, as most fitte for the excellency...
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