The poetical works of Edmund Spenser Author:Edmund Spenser Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROSOPOPOIA: MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE. BY ED. SP. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, THE LADIE COMPTON AND MOUNTEGLE. 1591. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, ... more »THE LADIE COMPTON AND MOUNTEGLE Most faire and vertuous Ladie; having often sought opportunitie by some good meanes to make knowen to your Ladiship the humble affection and faithfull duetie,, which I have alwaies professed, and am bound to beare to that House, from whence yee spring, I have at length found occasion to remember the same, by making a simple present to you of these my idle labours; which having long sithens composed in the raw conceipt of my youth, I lately amongst other papers lighted upon, and was by others, which liked the same, mooved to set them foorth. Simple is the device, and the composition meane, yet carrieth some delight, even the rather because of the sim- plicitie and meannesse thus personated. The same I beseech your Ladiship take in good part, as a pledge of that profession which I have made to you; and keepe with you untill, with some other more worthie labour, I do redeeme it out of your hands, and discharge my utmost dutie. Till then wishing your Ladiship all increase of honour and happinesse, I humblie take leave. Your La: ever humbly; Ed. Sp. "This lady waa Anne, the fifth daughter of Sir John Spenser, distinguished also in the pastoral of Colin Clouts come Home again, by the name of Charillis. She was married, first to Sir Win. Stanley, Lord Mountegle; next to Henry Compton, Lord Compton; and lastly to Robert Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset." — Todd. PROSOPOPOIA : MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE. J.T was the month, in which the righteous Maide, That for disdaine of sinfull worlds upbraide Fled back to heaven, whence she was first conceived, Into her silver ...« less