Authority Cited: Spenser; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
Author name and dates: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge poet; w/Raleigh gained much plunder in Ireland campaign; wrote F.Q. in Ireland; father of modern English verse
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 1511 Spenser cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1658 cites in Dict. vol. 2 (Freed counted 1546 for Dict. vol. 1, which may be correct as electronic searches may not have identified all of the Spenser cites identified only by the name of the work or abbreviations in Dict. vol. 1). A number of citations only to "Spenser" under the letters A through D are identified under the titles below. 53 Spenser cites identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. No added Spenser cites were identified under the letters "L," "Q," or "Y" in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. Reddick, on pp.121-122 in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, lists 30 authors cited more than 10 times under the letters "M" through "Z." As Spenser is not in Reddick's list the number of Spenser additions in the 1773 Dict. vol. 2 is taken as less than 10. The edition(s) that SJ used for the Spenser citations is unknown. Those from the Shepherds Calendar Glosses appear to be from the 1679 edition, as discussed below. The Hughes edition is cited for its Glossary for hilding. Two Spenser titles are listed in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, 1975: 268 8. Spenser's Works, 6 v. (octavo, perhaps a Hughes edition); 596 7. Spencer's fairie queen, &c. (folio?, perhaps the 1679 edition)]
The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz : The Faery queen, The Shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print, 1679, London: Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street AND The works of Spenser. In six volumes. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. To which is prefix'd the life of the author, and an essay on allegorical poetry, by Mr. Hughes, 1750 (also 1715), London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper
Author name and dates: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge poet; w/Raleigh gained much plunder in Ireland campaign; wrote F.Q. in Ireland; father of modern English verse
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 1511 Spenser cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1658 cites in Dict. vol. 2 (Freed counted 1546 for Dict. vol. 1, which may be correct as electronic searches may not have identified all of the Spenser cites identified only by the name of the work or abbreviations in Dict. vol. 1). A number of citations only to "Spenser" under the letters A through D are identified under the titles below. 53 Spenser cites identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. No added Spenser cites were identified under the letters "L," "Q," or "Y" in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. Reddick, on pp.121-122 in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, lists 30 authors cited more than 10 times under the letters "M" through "Z." As Spenser is not in Reddick's list the number of Spenser additions in the 1773 Dict. vol. 2 is taken as less than 10. The edition(s) that SJ used for the Spenser citations is unknown. Those from the Shepherds Calendar Glosses appear to be from the 1679 edition, as discussed below. The Hughes edition is cited for its Glossary for hilding. Two Spenser titles are listed in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, 1975: 268 8. Spenser's Works, 6 v. (octavo, perhaps a Hughes edition); 596 7. Spencer's fairie queen, &c. (folio?, perhaps the 1679 edition)]
The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz : The Faery queen, The Shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print, 1679, London: Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street AND The works of Spenser. In six volumes. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. To which is prefix'd the life of the author, and an essay on allegorical poetry, by Mr. Hughes, 1750 (also 1715), London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper
- [Amoretti] Sonnets; accompany (iii); all (xxxii); askew (vii); aslake (xliv); assaugement; break (lxxxiv); cloudy (xl); coat (lxx); congeal (xxx); construe (xliii); cordial (l); cuckoo (xix; cuckow in texts); dark (lxxxi); despoil (lii); dilate (lxvi); dim (xxxiii); drizzle (xviii; drizling in texts); dumpish (iv); dureful (iv);
- Epithalamion; all; bonfire; cancel; coronal; darksome; diaper;
- Fairy Queen; aband; abandon; aspen; avale; badge; baldrick (bauldrick in texts); bluster; by; canon bit; clomb; close; corse; crack; despiteously; dote; . . .
- Hubberd’s Tale [Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberd's Tale]; arm; box; breath; brocage; canker; cast; chaffer; chanceful; do; droil;
- [Hymn in Honour of Beauty]; aslake;
- Hymn on Love [Hymn in Honour of Love]; aspect; baseness; cope; dearling; deduct; dislike; duly; enable; enlumine; newness; purgatory;
- [Letter of the Authors, Expounding his whole intention in the course of this work (F.Q.); cloudily; doubtfully;
- Muiopotmos [Fate of the Butterfly]; ambushment; brigandine; butterfly; cobweb; cumin (cummin in texts); diaper; drearihead (headword changed to drearyhead in 1773 Dict.; dryrihed in 1679 text, drerihed in 1750 text);
- Pastorals [Shepherds Calendar, Containing Twelve Aeglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months]; aeglogue; aligge; bandog; bare; bluster; bulrush; checkmate (chekmate in 1679 text); daffodil/daffodilly/daffodowndilly (daffadowndillies in texts); delightsome [Epistle/Dedication to Gabriel Harvey from "E.K."]; pond; unright [Epistle]; vein (Prof. Beth Rapp Young points out, June 2024, that the vein quote by Spenser in the1755 Dict. does not include the headword, but that the fourth line in the Spenser text reads "Or honor Pan with hymnes of higher vaine." The inconsistency was resolved by removing the quote for sense 9. in the 1773 Dict.]
- Prothalamion; baldrick (bauldrick in texts); calm; entrail; grain; greenish;
- State of Ireland; acceptance; bedding; border; century; cess; colourable; conscience; cozen; disburse; distribute; dwellingplace (dwelling-places in texts); earldom;
- Tears of the Muses; blindness; cherishment; complement; diapase; dull;
- Visions of Bellay; assize; bench; claw; creeky;
- [Visions of Petrarch]; aggrieve;
- [Visions of the World's Vanity]; brize
- Spenser (no work cited); abuse; affix; airy; alew; all; amerce; approvance; arm; assay; assiege; avale; avoid; bedding; careful; challenge; chanceful; cleanly; constraint; contain; corpse; corrupt; court; craven; cruelly; cumber (incorrect citation, should be Fairfax, Tasso); damask; demean; desire; despairful; despiteously; despoil; discipline; distent; distrain (def.); doted; drear; drunkenness (incorrect citation, should be South); dwell; early; earthly; easterling; edify; efforce; elfin; empale; empty; emule; englut; engorge; eyed; . . . for (Dict.: "The oak for nothing ill, the osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill." Prof. Beth Rapp Young notes, June 2024, that this quote is not found in Spenser, but the phrases "the sallow for the mill" and "the ash for nothing ill" occur in Canto 1 of the Fairy Queen. BKG Note: the Dict. quote perhaps concocted from memory by S.J.) . . . guidance; harrow; hideous; impress; intuse;