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

by Edmund Spenser

IV. vii. 12 I. l. caytiue] captiue conj. Collier. But Spenser used the adj. ‘caytiue’ in this sense in I. vii. 19 l. 3; I. ix. 11 l. 9.

IV. vii. 32 l. 7. oft] eft conj. Hughes, to improve the rhyme.

IV. viii. 1 l. 9. infixed] infected 16(11)-12-13.

IV. viii. 64 l. 1. this] his 16(11)-12-13. Morris reports ‘his 1609’: not so in genuine copies examined.

IV. ix. 11 l. 9. The conjecture ‘them’, approved by Church, was originally made by Hughes.

IV. ix. 17 l 7. bequest] request 16(11)-12-13.

IV. x. 8 l. 8. Upton reports that one of his quartos had ‘his’, the other ‘this’.

IV. x. 23 ll. 2, 8. The words ‘ghesse’ and ‘bee’ are transposed in all copies examined except 4^o Art. Seld. S. 22 in the Bodleian and C. 12. h. 17, 18 in the British Museum. The correction was evidently made as the sheets went through the press. See Introduction, p. xix. 16(11)-12-13 reads ‘I ghesse’.

IV. x. 27 l. 1. Hyllus 1596: Hylus 1609. Spenser evidently means Hylas. There was a Hyllus, son of Hercules and Deianeira; but it is unlikely that Spenser confused the two, for he has Hylas rightly in a similar context, III. xii. 7.