Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Edmund Spenser

III. vii. 45 l. I. See note on I. ii. 29 l. 2.

III. vii. 48 l. 4. Spenser has remembered, or been reminded, that Ollyphant reappears in III. xi.

III. viii. 30 l. 3. frory] frowy 1590, 1596. The reading of 1609 is established by comparison with III. viii. 35 l. 2. ‘Frowie’ occurs in S. C. (July III); but it means ‘musty’.

III. viii. 46 l. 9. vnworthy] vnworthy’ 1590. 49 l. 2 T’haue] To haue 1590. See note on I. i. 15 l. 6.

III. ix. 13 l. 9. See note on I. ii. 29 l. 2.

III. ix. 20 l. 9. persant] persent 1609: present 1611.

III. ix. 48 l. 6. to sea] to the sea 1596—perhaps rightly: cf. note on I. i. 15 l. 6.

III. x. 41 l. 7. Morris reports ‘wild forest 1609’: not so in any of the copies examined.

III. x. 46 l. 6. th’Earthes] the Earthes 1609. See note on I. v. 23 l. 8 and Introduction, p. xviii.