Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Book VI the poet lives once more in Arcadia. But positive indications

of date are very rare. Book V Canto xi must be later than July 25, 1593, when Henri IV heard that mass which was the price of Paris: the singular dislocation of the Argument to Canto xii--half of which refers to the incidents of Canto xi--suggests that this _Burbon_ episode was an afterthought; that it was inserte...