That thrill our nerves and mount into our brains.

If he would study less in Gosson's "School"

(That of "Abuse," o'er which you laid the rule

In your "Defence of Poesy"), and stay

Less in dim Orcus than Arcadia,

Then—well, I might have well been spared this task.

Spenser, you penned your own; now may I ask

Epithalamion-recipes from you?

Spenser (smiling).

Yes—when you need them! I was Laureate too!