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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

Chapter 209: APPENDIX.
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The volume gathers shorter lyrics, elegies, allegories, translations, and occasional pieces that reflect on worldly transience, artistic vocation, and social concerns. Several complaint poems mourn ruined cities and vanished fame, while pastoral and fable-like narratives mix moral satire with mythic imagery. Translations of continental sonnets and visions appear alongside original sequences of love poems and nuptial odes, plus occasional hymns, epigrams, and a whimsical insect tale. Throughout, meditation on time, memory, and poetic duty alternates with praise of patrons and ironic commentary on human vanity, producing a varied collection of lyric, narrative, and didactic strains.

APPENDIX I.

VARIATIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS.

The Ruines of Time v. 353, covetize, Q. covertize.
The Ruines of Time v. 541, ocean, Q. Occaean.
The Ruines of Time v. 551, which (ed. 1611), Q. with.
The Ruines of Time v. 574, worlds (ed. 1611), Q. words.
The Ruines of Time v. 675, worldës, Q. worlds.
The Teares of the Muses v. 600, living (ed. 1611), Q. loving.
Virgils Gnat v. 149, Ascraean, Q. Astraean.
Virgils Gnat v. 340, seest thou not (ed. 1611), Q. seest thou.
Virgils Gnat v. 387, throat (ed. 1611), Q. threat.
Virgils Gnat v. 575, billowes, Q. billowe.
Prosopopoia v. 53, gossip, Q. goship.
Prosopopoia v. 453, diriges, Q. dirges.
Prosopopoia v. 648, at all, Q. all.
Prosopopoia v. 997, whether, Q. whither.
Prosopopoia v. 1012, stopt, Q. stept.
Prosopopoia v. 1019, whither, Q. whether.
Ruines of Rome xviii. 5, ornaments, Q. ornament.
Muiopotmos v. 250, dispacing, Q. displacing.
Muiopotmos v. 431, yongthly, Q. yougthly.
The Visions of Bellay ii. 8, one, Q. on.
The Visions of Bellay ix. 1, astonied, Q. astoined.
The Visions of Petrarche vii. 1, behold, Q. beheld.
Amoretti lxxxii. 2, placed, Orig ed*. plac’d. [* According to Todd.]
Epithalmion v. 67, dere, orig. ed. dore.
Epithalmion v. 190, mazeful (ed. 1611), orig. ed. amazeful.
Epithalmion v. 290, sad dread (ed. 1611), orig. ed. dread.
Epithalmion v. 341, Pouke, orig. ed. ponke.
An Hymne in Honour of Love v. 165, they will (ed. 1611), orig. ed. thou
wilt.
An Hymne in Honour of Love v. 169, be enfyred (ed. 1611), orig. ed. he
enfyred.
An Hymne in Honour of Love v. 302, an (ed. 1611), orig. ed. and.
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie v. 147, deform’d, orig. ed. perform’d.
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie v. 171, affections (ed. 1611), orig. ed.
affection.