{2} See _Colin Clouts Come Home Again_, vv. 180-184, quoted below. {3} This is the 'Lodovick' mentioned in Sonnet 33, quoted below. It was from him a little later, in 1588, that Spenser obtained by 'purchase' the succession to the office of the Clerk of the Government Council of Munster. _See_ Dr. Grosart's vol. i. p. 151. {4} Dr. Birch refers in his note to _The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork_, by Charles Smith, vol. i. book i. c. i. p. 58-63. Edit. Dublin 1750, 8vo. And Fiennes Moryson's _Itinerary_, part ii. p. 4. {5} Todd proposes to regard this date as a printer's error for 1595, quite unnecessarily. {6} Mr. Edward Edwards, 1868, I. c. vi.; see also _Colin Clouts Come Home Again_, vv. 312-319. {7} 'My lord of Essex hath chased Mr. Raleigh from the court and confined him in Ireland.'--Letter, dated August 17, 1589, from Captain Francis Allen to Antony Bacon, Esq.--Quoted by Todd from Dr. Birch's _Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth_.--See Mr. Edwards's _Life of Raleigh_, I. c. viii. {8} See Raleigh's lines entitled 'A Vision upon this Conceipt of the _Faery Queene_,' prefixed to the _Faerie Queene_. CHAPTER III. 1590. Thus after an absence of about nine years, Spenser returned for a time to England; he returned 'bringing his sheaves with him.' Whatever shadow of misunderstanding had previously come between his introducer--or perhaps re-introducer--and her Majesty seems to have been speedily dissipated. Raleigh presented him to the Queen, who, it would appear, quickly recognised his merits. 'That goddess' To mine oaten pipe enclin'd her eare That she thenceforth therein gan take delight, And it desir'd at timely houres to heare Al were my notes but rude and roughly dight. In the Registers of the Stationers' Company for 1589 occurs to following entry, quoted here from Mr. Arber's invaluable edition of them:-- Primo Die Decembris.--Master Ponsonbye. Entered for his Copye a book intituled the fayre Queene, dyposed into xii bookes &c. Aucthorysed vnder thandes of the Archb. of Canterbery & bothe the Wardens, vjd.