311.47-49. The image of Cupid, quite different in conception from Venus's "little sonne" of 306.11 ff.
312.1-27. The Masque of Cupid.
If your interest has been now been aroused, I suggest you read the Letter to Raleigh before venturing on your journey through the landscape of The Faerie Queene.
You will find there a spacious playground for the mind. Its knights and ladies, dragons and satyrs, forests and castles, seem at first to be those of fantasy. Yet the FQ is by no means an exercise in escapism. Even incomplete, it triumphantly succeeds in Spenser's declared intention of fashioning a "noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline".
=> ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY AND TEXTUAL APPENDIX
adj. adjective, adjectival, adjectivally adv. adverb, adverbial, adverbially Aen. Aeneid (Virgil) app. apparently BC before Christ c. circa, about catachr. catachresis, catachrestic, catachrestically CC Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (Spenser) cf. compare Col. Colossians conj. conjectured by corr. corrected by Dan. Daniel DGDG De Genealogia Deorum Gentilium (Boccaccio) Deut. Deuteronomy dub. dubitative, dubitatively Eccl. Ecclesiastes Ephes. Ephesians erron. erroneous, erroneously esp. especial, especially et seq. and the following words, passages euphem. euphemism, euphemistic, euphemistically Exod. Exodus Ezek. Ezekiel ff. following, et. seq. fig. figurative, figuratively fl. floruit (indicating the period during which a person "flourished" FQ The Faerie Queene Gal. Galatians Gen. Genesis GL Gerusalemme Liberata (Tasso) Heb. Hebrews Hos. Hosea HRB Historia Regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth) Hubberd Mother Hubberds Tale (Spenser) intr. intransitive, intransitively Isa. Isaiah Josh. Joshua Judg. Judges lit. literal, literally LR Spenser's letter to Raleigh (see Introductory Matter) Matt. Matthew Met. Metamorphoses (Ovid) Myth. Mythologiae (Comes) Odes Odes (Ovid) OE Old English OED Oxford English Dictionary, 1989 edition OF Orlando Furioso (Ariosto) OFr Old French PL Paradise Lost (Milton) ppl. past participle prep. preposition, prepositional, prepositionally Ps. Psalms refl. reflexive, reflexively Rev. Revelation Rinaldo Rinaldo (Tasso) Rom. Romans RR Ruines of Rome (Spenser) sb. substantive, substantival, substantivally SC The Shepheardes Calender (Spenser) Song Sol. Song of Solomon sp., spp. species SU sense unique (i.e. this sense is found only here) SUFQ sense unique to FQ sugg. suggested by SUS sense unique to Spenser TM Teares of the Muses (Spenser) trans. transitive, transitively usu. usually Var. the variorum edition of Spenser's works (see Bibliography) vb. verb WU word unique (i.e. this word is found only here) WUFQ word unique to FQ WUS word unique to Spenser
=> PROPER NOUNS
The proper nouns in Books I-III (excluding the Introductory Matter) are catalogued here. The spellings given are those used in the Shadow Text. If the proper noun is glossed, reference to the stanza or stanzas containing the glossary entry or entries is given; otherwise, the stanza where the proper noun first occurs is noted.
The list has been extended to include characters who are not actually named. Entries for such characters begin with a lower- case letter. For example, Una's dwarf is listed as: dwarf [Una's].
The categories are as follows: