FOOTNOTES:
Ver. 8.—Verlame. Veralam, or Verulamium, was a British and Roman town, near the present city of St. Alban’s in Hertfordshire. Some remains of its walls are still perceptible. H.
Ver. 64.—Th’Assyrian Lyonesse. These types of nations are taken from the seventh chapter of the book of Daniel. H.
Ver. 190.—I saw him die. Leicester died at Cornbury Lodge, in Oxfordshire. Todd suggests that he may have fallen sick at St. Alban’s, and that Spenser, hearing the report in Ireland, may havo concluded without inquiry that this was the place of his subsequent death, C.
Ver. 225.—Colin Cloute. Spenser himself, who had been befriended by
Leicester. H.
Ver. 239.—His brother. Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick.
Ver. 245.—His noble spouse. Anne, the eldest daughter of Francis
Russell, Earl of Bedford.
Ver. 260.—His sister. Lady Mary Sidney.
Ver. 261.—That good earle, &c. This Earl of Bedford died in 1585.—
TODD.
Ver. 267.—He, noble bud, &c. Edward Russell, grandson of Francis Earl of Bedford, succeeded in the earldom, his father, Francis, having been slain by the Scots.—OLDYS.