THE ALDINE EDITION

OF THE BRITISH

POETS

THE POEMS OF EDMUND SPENSER

IN FIVE VOLUMES

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CONTENTS

VOL. V.

FOWRE HYMNES.

An Hymne in Honour of Love

An Hymne in Honour of Beautie

An Hymne of Heavenly Love

An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie

THREE VISIONS.

The Visions of Petrarch, formerly translated

The Visions of Bellay

Visions of the Worlds Vanitie

Prosopopoia: or, Mother Hubberds Tale

Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse

Epithalamion

The doleful Lay of Clorinda

The Mourning Muse of Thestylis

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Poems

Amoretti, or Sonnets

Daphnaida: an Elegie upon the Death of the noble

and vertuous Douglas Howard

Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie upon the Death of the

most noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney .. 189

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