A BIOGRAPHY OF EDMUND SPENSER, BY JOHN W. HALES
Revised 1896

From the Macmillan Globe edition of
THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER



Please note

Accented, etc. characters are shown thus:
{a\} = a + grave accent
{e\} = e + grave accent
{e"} = e + diaeresis mark
{ae} = ae diphthong
{oe} = oe dipthong
Footnotes for each chapter are enclosed in curly
brackets, e.g. {1}
Regions of italic type are defined by underscores



_E D M U N D S P E N S E R_.


Ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim
Credebat libris; neque, si male cesserat, unquam
Decurrens alio, neque si bene; quo fit ut omnis
Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella
Vita senis.