The Works of Edmund Spenser (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for one Epithalamie or nuptiall Song made by Vargas, a Spanim Poet, at her mariage with king. Phillip in Winchefter, gave him during his life two hundred crownes penfion." After the publication of the Faerie Queene in 1590, Spenfer returned to Ireland. And fuch was now the fame of his poetical character, that the bookfeller, for whom that work had been printed, eagerly collected together and publifhed, in the fucceeding year, " ComPlaints, containing fundrie fmall Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie, viz. 1. The Ruines of Time. 2. The Teares of the Mufes. 3. Virgils Gnat. 4. Profopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale. 5. The Ruines of Rome, by Bellay. 6. Muiopotmos, or The Tale of the Butterflie. 7. Vifions of the Worlds Vanitie. 8. Bellayes Vifions. 9- Petrarches Vifions:" to which is prefixed the following addrefs of " The Printer to the Gentle Reader. Since my late fetting foorth of the Faerie Queene, finding that it hath found a favourable paflage amongft you; I have fithence endevoured, by all good meanes, (for the better encreafe and accomplishment of your delights,) to get into my handes fuch fmale Poemes of the fame Authors as I heard were difperft abroad in fundrie hands ; and not eafie to bee come by, by himfelfe; fome of themhaving bene diverflie imbeziled, and purloyned from him, Jince his departure over fea. Of the which I have, by good meanes, gathered togeather thefe fewe parcels prefent, which I have c"aufed to bee imprinted altogeather, for that they al feeme to containe like matter of argument in them; being all complaints and meditations of the worlds vanitie, verie grave and profitable. To which effe6l I underftand that he befides wrote fundrie others, namelie, 1 Ecclejiqftes, and s Canticum Canticorum, tran- lated; l A Senights Slumber; "The Hell of Lovers; his P...