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To the Right Worshipfull Maister Benedic Barnam, Esquire, Alderman and Sheriffe of this honorable Citty of London: health and happinesse.

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WOrshipfull Sir, I am bold (by way of dedication) to giuegive yee this excellent Dialogue of Plato the Phylosopher, for two reasons. The first, that so singuler a worke, doone by a Heathen man, might as wel florish in our vulgare speech, as of long time it hath doone both in Greeke and Latine.

The seconde, that your countenaunce might shaddowe it from reprochefull slaunders, which common censures too lightly bolt out against the best endeuoursendevours. But concerning the speciall matter, to wit, my presumption, without first acquainting yee heere-with: thus I protect my selfe. My familiarity with yee in your younger yeeres, when sometimes wee were Schollers together, and my present ioyjoy, to see ye so hap- pie a succeeder both in your Fathers vertues, place, and Office: imboldened mee to shew a remembrance of the one, yet reuerentlyreverently, and gladnes of the other as well becommeth me.

If in thys small gift, ye make acceptance both of the one and other, yee shall declare no lesse then each one well discernes in ye, and ioyjoy him that eueryevery way is at your cõmaundcommaund.

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General Materials

Volume I General Introduction
Volume I General Textual Introduction
A Theatre for Worldlings (1569)
The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
Spenser-Harvey Letters (1580)
- General Introduction
- Textual Introduction
- Forme State Analysis
- Eclectic Copy Text
- Text and commentary

The Faerie Queene (1590)
- Forme State Analysis (1590)
- Eclectic Copy Text
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Text and commentary book I
- Text and commentary book II
- Text and commentary book III
- Text and commentary back matter
Complaints (1591)
- Forme State Analysis
- Text
Daphnaida (1591)
Axiochus (1592)
Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595)
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595)
The Faerie Queene (1596)
- Forme State Analysis (1596 pt II)
- Text book I
- Text book II
- Text book III
- Text book IV
- Text book V
- Text book VI
Fowre Hymnes (1596)
Prothalamion (1596)
- Title Page
- Poems
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (1609)

A Present Vewe of Ireland
- Introduction
- Texts (provisional transcriptions)
  - Andrew Zurcher’s transcription of the Gonville and Caius manuscript of the Vewe has not been brought into conformity to the transcription protocols of the Spenser Project.
  - Subscribers to EEBO who are members of the Text Creation Partnership can follow this link to the TCP transcription of Ware’s edition of the Vewe. This transcription does not conform to the editorial protocols of the Spenser Project.
- Veue MSS Images

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To my long approoved and singular good frende, Master G.H.(Letters I.1)1. long aprooved: tried and true,found trustworthy over along period