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 1400 Spenser cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1580 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.]
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 OR 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 [BKG Note: the edition(s) that SJ used for the Spenser citations is unknown. The orthography of the text of the two titles above appears to be the same. 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); 596 7. Spencer's fairie queen, &c. (folio?, perhaps the 1679 edition)]
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 1400 Spenser cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1580 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.]
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 OR 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 [BKG Note: the edition(s) that SJ used for the Spenser citations is unknown. The orthography of the text of the two titles above appears to be the same. 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); 596 7. Spencer's fairie queen, &c. (folio?, perhaps the 1679 edition)]
- [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."];
- 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); cumber (incorrect citation, should be Fairfax, Tasso); drunkenness (incorrect citation, should be South)