THE

COMPLETE WORKS

IN

VERSE AND PROSE

OF

EDMUND SPENSER.

VOL. IV.

PHNAIDA: AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE AND
VERTUOUS DOUGLAS HOWARd, etc. 1591.

COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN. 1595.

AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION.

FOWRE HYMNES. 1596.

1595.

PROTHALAMION, OR A SPOUSAL VERSE, ETC. 1596.

ASTROPHEL, ETC., AND SONNETS.

THE

COMPLETE WORKS

IN

VERSE AND PROSE

OF

EDMUND SPENSER.

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.

Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney, London and Aylesbury.

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.

PAGE

ESSAYS ON THE MINOR POEMS OF SPENSER. BY F. T. PALGRAVE,
Esq., LL.D.

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I. DAPHNAIDA: AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE

AND VERTUOUS DOUGLAS HOWARD, ETC. 1591

II. COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN. 1595.

III. AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION.

1595.

IV. FOWRE HYMNES. 1596 .

V. PROTHALAMION, OR A SPOUSAL VERSE, ETC.

VI, ASTROPHEL, ETC., AND SONNETS

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