Though the Spenserian imitations continued beyond the year which saw the birth of Wordsworth,[147] it is not necessary to mention further examples, except perhaps that of William Mickle, who, in 1767, published “The Concubine,” a Spenserian imitation of two cantos, which afterwards appeared in a later edition (1777) under the title “Sir Martyn.” Like his predecessors, Mickle made free use of obsolete spellings and words, while he added the usual glossary, which is significant as showing at the end of the eighteenth century, about the time when Tyrwhitt was completing his edition of Chaucer, not only the artificial character of this “Spenserian diction,” but also the small acquaintance of the average man of letters with our earlier language.[148] It must not be assumed, of course, that all the “obsolete” words used by the imitators were taken directly from Spenser. Words like _nathless_, _rathe_, _hight_, _sicker_, _areeds_, _cleeped_, _hardiment_, _felly_, etc., had continued in fairly common use until the seventeenth century, though actually some of them were regarded even then as archaisms. Thus _cleoped_, though never really obsolete, is marked by Blount in 1656 as “Saxon”; _sicker_, extensively employed in Middle English, is rarely found used after 1500 except by Scotch writers, though it still remains current in northern dialects. On the other hand, not a few words were undoubtedly brought directly back into literature from the pages of Spenser, among them being _meed_, _sheen_ (boasting an illustrious descent from _Beowulf_ through Chaucer), _erst_, _elfin_, _paramour_. Others, like _scrannel_, and apparently also _ledded_, were made familiar by Milton’s use the former either being the poet’s own coinage or his borrowing from some dialect or other. On the other hand, very many of the “revived” words failed to take root at all, such as _faitours_, which Spenser himself had apparently revived, and also his coinage _singult_, though Scott is found using the latter form.