A NOTE ON THIS EDITION

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.