III. vi. 26 l. 4. both farre and nere om. 1590. 1596 here completes a line left imperfect in 1590, which makes it possible than Spenser may have intended to complete other broken lines, such as II. iii. 26 l. 9; II. viii. 55 l. 9.
III. vi. 39 l. 1. 1611 reads ‘and all’, to avoid the trisyllabic foot. See note on I. i. 15 l. 6.
III. vi. 40 l. 6. See Introduction, p. viii.
III. vi. 45 l. 4. See Introduction, p. xviii.
III. vii. 5 l. I. the tops] th’tops 1609. See note on I. i. 15 l. 6.
III. vii. 9 l. 3. two] to conj. Hughes. Morris reports ‘to’ from 1596: not so in copies examined. See also I. vi. 47 l. 8 and note there.
III. vii. 13 l. 6. had] hath 1590. The notes of Todd and Morris imply that some copies of 1596 also read ‘hath’. If so, it should be adopted as the better reading.
III. vii. 22 l. 4. Monstrous mishapt] Monstrous, mishapt 1590. Cf. I. i. 9 l. 6; 1. x. 7 l. 8.
III. vii. 32 l. 7. muchell] much ill 1611, puzzled by the archaism.
III. vii. 34 l. 2. See Introduction, p. vii.