...tribute in kind. By the side of Ralech's ScHHet. sonnet its flattery hardly seems extravagant : — Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within...Love and fairer Virtue kept. All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen, At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept ; And from thenceforth those graces were not...

...kind. By the side of Ralegh's Sannet. sonnet its flattery hardly seems extravagant : — Methonght I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple...Love and fairer Virtue kept. All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen, At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept; And from thenceforth those graces were not...

...Spenser. VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR, A Vision upon this conceipt of the Faery Queene, JETHOUGHT I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that Temple where the vestal! flame Was wont to burne ; and passing by that way, To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tumbe faire love, and...

...1590 the poem was published. To that edition Sir Walter contributed this commendatory sonnet : — " Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple where the vestal Hame Was wont to burn ; and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tomb...

...UPON THIS CONCEIT OF THE FAIRY QUEEN.1 (1590.) I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that tcmplo where the vestal flame Was wont to burn : and, passing...Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen, At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept ; And froiji thenceforth those graces were...

...would pronounce h1m his Socrates. " — Thomas Nash, Preface to Greene's Menapkc1., 1589. Me thought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple...way, To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose to nb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the Faery Queene; At whose approach the...

...which caused Aubrey de Vere to call her " the best sung of women except Beatrice." * J " Me thought I saw the grave where Laura lay. Within that Temple where the vestal l flame Was wont to burne; and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tumbe...

...fit, To tread those blest paths ; which before I writ. A VISION UPON THIS CONCEIT OF THE FAERY QUEEN s weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman...dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She san t All suddenly I saw the Faery Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch" wept, And from thenceforth...

...time. —SPENSER, EDMUND, 1590, Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, The Faerie Queene, bk. i. Me thought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that Temple where the vesttill flame Was wont to bnrue ; and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame,...

...Spenser. VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR. •< Vision upon this conceipt of the faery Qttfene. LI thought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that Temple where the vestall flame it way Thy lovely ftosolinde seemes now forlornc, And all thy gentle flockes forgotten...