The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

Portions Copyright (C) 2004 by Jonathan Barnes
This is an electronic edition of Volume One of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene . You are encouraged to use and copy it.
The edition includes the following elements:
- an entirely new composite text, based on the edition of 1596 (the Original Text )
- details of departures, or proposed departures, from the copy text (the Textual Appendix )
- a modernized version of the Original Text (the Shadow Text )
- definitions of difficult words and phrases in the Shadow Text (the Glossary ).
The Original Text was not scanned, but typed, and proofed against the Scolar Press facsimile (see Bibliography). Editing took place between November 1989 and July 1992, using EMACS.
Edition 10 (faeri10.txt) was prepared especially for Project Gutenberg in February 2003.
Thus edition (August 2004) corrects a few errors in the convention for italic type. A few definitions appearing in the wrong place have also been fixed, as have anomalous top-bit set characters in the Hales Biography, which has been reformatted to make it easier to read.
The edition is best viewed with a monospaced font. Plain ASCII text is used throughout. Accented, etc., characters are indicated by symbols contained in curly brackets, e.g.:
{e/} = lower-case e + acute accent (pointing up to right) {e\} = lower-case e + grave accent (pointing up to left) {o^} = lower-case o + circumflex accent {o } = lower-case o + diaeresis mark {e~} = lower-case e + tilde {ae} = lower-case ae diphthong {Ae} = ae diphthong with initial capital {AE} = fully capitalized ae diphthong etc.