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The faerie qveen : The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët (1611)

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, printer, Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625, bookseller · [London] : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes · leaf 421

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o be Paris. Beauties Qjueene, Venus, to whom Paris adiudged the golden Applc,as thcpriceofherbeautie. Smbleme^. The meaning heereofis very ambiguous: for Perigot by his poefie claiming theconqueft,and WiUie notyeelding,Cuddie the Arbitrer of their caufe^nd Patron:ofhis owne,fecmeth to challenge… … 5^ <tAegloga nona-j.ARGV MENT. H Herein DiggonDauie isdeuifedto be a (hepheard, that in hope ofmore gaine, draue his (heepe into a fairccountrey. Theabufcs where-of, & loofe liuing of popifli Prelates^byoccafionof Hobbinols demaund,he difcourieth at large. HOBBINOLt. DTggon D AVI e, I bid…

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