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[* _Sabine flowre_, a kind of juniper, the savine.]
And whatsoever other flowre of worth,
And whatso other hearb of lovely hew
The ioyous Spring out of the ground brings forth,
To cloath her selfe in colours fresh and new,
He planted there, and reard a mount of earth, 685
In whose high front was writ as doth ensue:
_To thee, small Gnat, in lieu of his life saved,_
_The Shepheard hath thy deaths record engraved._
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FOOTNOTES:
VIRGILS GNAT. This is a very skilful elaboration of the Culex, a poem
attributed, without reason, to Virgil. The original, which is crabbed
and pedantic, where it is not unintelligible from corruption, is here
rendered with sufficient fidelity to the sense, but with such
perspicuity, elegance, and sweetness, as to make Spenser's performance
too good a poem to be called a translation. C.
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PROSOPOPOIA:
OR
MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE.
BY ED. SP.
DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE,
THE LADIE COMPTON AND MOUNTEGLE.
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LONDON:
IMPRINTED FOR WILLIAM PONSONBIE, DWELLING IN PAULES
CHURCHYARD AT THE SIGNE OF THE BISHOPS HEAD.


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