[34] See again [Bk. IV]. for fuller information on this.
[35] The MS. has the contraction "Sēn."
[36] As in "hips and haws."
[37] From Spenser onward the spelling is modern.
[38] Spenser here takes (as he sometimes continued to do even in F. Q.) the liberty of shifting the rhyming syllable. There is no doubt that this is not a good liberty. But in struggling out of the fifteenth-century slough Wyatt was constantly driven to it, and it was not till the seventeenth that poets recognised the fact that the easement was more of a disfigurement than it was worth.
[39] "Fallen" is pretty certainly "fall'n."
[40] For more on Shakespeare's blank verse see the close of this chapter and the next Book.
[41] For Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, v. inf. [Book II].
[42] For scanned examples of Shakespeare's complete prosodic grasp in lyric, v. inf. pp. [182-3].
[43] See [Glossary], "Musical and Rhetorical Arrangements."