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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose (3); Essays. Complaints
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose Essays Complaints - 3 Author:Edmund Spenser Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: Spenser society Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wh... more »ere you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: OR Mother Hubberd'S Tale By Ed. S P. Dedicated to the Right Honorable THE LADIE Compton AND Mountegle. LONDON. Imprinted for William Ponfonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the ftgne of the Bifhops head. 1591. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LAD IE COMPTON AND MOUNTEGLE. 1/T OST faire and vcrtuous Ladie; hauing often fought opportunitie by fome good meanes to make knowen to your Ladifhip, the humble affection and faithfull duetie, which I haue alwaies profeffcd, and am bound to beare to that Houfe, from whence yee fpring; I haue at length found occafion to remHer the fame, by making a fimple prefent to you of tliefe my idle' labours; which hauing long fit hens compofed in thc raw conceipt of my o youth, I lately amongfl other papers lighted vpon, and was by otliers, which liked tlie fame, mooned to fet the foorth. Simple is the deuice, and the compofition meane, yet carrieth fome delight, euen the rather becanfe of the fim- plicitie« less