A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

His litle needle there infixing deep,

Warnd him awake, from death himselfe to keep.

Spenser.

[550]. Faery Queene, book iii. c. ii. 3. See Dunlop, iii.

[551]. Spenser, adopting the incorrect orthography and etymology of Petrarch, writes the word Æglogue, and derives it from αἴγων λόγοι—tales of goats or goatherds.

[552]. Sat. I. x. 44.

[553]. Id. x. and xxi.

[554]. In Euseb. Chron.

[555]. B. C. 39.

[556]. Præl. de Sacr. Po. He. xxi. p. 289.