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EDMUND SPENSER

VOL. IV.
DAPHNAIDA: AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE AND

VERTUOUS DOUGLAS HOWARD, ETC. 1591.
COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN. 1595.
AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION. 1595.

FOWRE HYMNES. 1596.
PROTHALAMION, OR A SPOUSAL VERSE, ETC. 1596.

ASTROPHEL, ETC., AND SONNETS.

EDITED, WITH A NEW LIFE, BASED ON ORIGINAL RESEARCHES,
AND A GLOSSARY EMBRACING NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY THE
REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, LL.D. (Edin.), F.S.A.

St. George's, Blackburn, Lancashire;

IN ASSOCIATION WITH
PROFESSOR ANGUS, LL.D., LONDON.

DR. BRINSLEY NICHOLSON,
The Rev. THOMAS ASHE, M.A.,

LONDON.
CREWE.

GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Esq.,
PROFESSOR CHILD, LL.D., HARVARD

LONDON.
UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE,

HONBLE. THE LORD Esq., LL.D., LONDON.
CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND. AUBREY DE VERE, Esq., CURRAGH
PROFESSOR
EDWARD DOWDEN,

CHASE, ADARE.
LL.D., TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. Professor WARD, M.A., OWEN COL-
EDMUND W. GOSSE, Esq., LONDON.

LEGE, MANCHESTER.
WILLIAM HUBBARD, THE Rev. RICHARD WILTON, M.A.,
MANCHESTER

LONDESBOROUGH RECTORY.
PROFESSOR HENRY MORLEY, LL.D., WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, Esq.,
LONDON.

M.A., LL.D., TRINITY COLL., CAMB.,
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VOL. IV.
ESSAYS ON THE MINOR POEMS OF SPENSER.

By F. T. PALGRAVE, Esq., LL.D.
APHNAIDA: AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE AND

VERTUOUS DOUGLAS HOWARD, ETC. 1591.
COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN. 1595.
AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION. 1595.

FOWRE HYMNES. 1596.
PROTHALAMION, OR A SPOUSAL VERSE, ETC. 1596.

ASTROPHEL, ETC., AND SONNETS.

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