Antony Bacon, Esq.--Quoted by Todd from Dr. Birch's
_Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth_.--See Mr. Edwards's
_Life of Raleigh_, I. c. viii.
{8} See Raleigh's lines entitled 'A Vision upon this
Conceipt of the _Faery Queene_,' prefixed to the
_Faerie Queene_.






CHAPTER III.

1590.

Thus after an absence of about nine years, Spenser
returned for a time to England; he returned 'bringing
his sheaves with him.' Whatever shadow of
misunderstanding had previously come between his
introducer--or perhaps re-introducer--and her Majesty
seems to have been speedily dissipated. Raleigh
presented him to the Queen, who, it would appear,
quickly recognised his merits. 'That goddess'

To mine oaten pipe enclin'd her eare
That she thenceforth therein gan take delight,
And it desir'd at timely houres to heare
Al were my notes but rude and roughly dight.