312.1-27. The Masque of Cupid. If your interest has been now been aroused, I suggest you read the Letter to Raleigh before venturing on your journey through the landscape of _The Faerie Queene_. You will find there a spacious playground for the mind. Its knights and ladies, dragons and satyrs, forests and castles, seem at first to be those of fantasy. Yet the _FQ_ is by no means an exercise in escapism. Even incomplete, it triumphantly succeeds in Spenser's declared intention of fashioning a "noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline". => ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY AND TEXTUAL APPENDIX adj. adjective, adjectival, adjectivally adv. adverb, adverbial, adverbially _Aen._ _Aeneid_ (Virgil) app. apparently BC before Christ c. circa, about catachr. catachresis, catachrestic, catachrestically _CC_ _Colin Clouts Come Home Againe_ (Spenser) cf. compare _Col._ _Colossians_ conj. conjectured by corr. corrected by _Dan._ _Daniel_ _DGDG_ _De Genealogia Deorum Gentilium_ (Boccaccio) _Deut._ _Deuteronomy_ dub. dubitative, dubitatively _Eccl._ _Ecclesiastes_ _Ephes._ _Ephesians_ erron. erroneous, erroneously esp. especial, especially _et seq_. and the following words, passages euphem. euphemism, euphemistic, euphemistically _Exod._ _Exodus_ _Ezek._ _Ezekiel_ ff. following, _et. seq._ fig. figurative, figuratively fl. floruit (indicating the period during which a person "flourished" _FQ_ _The Faerie Queene_ _Gal._ _Galatians_ _Gen._ _Genesis_ _GL_ _Gerusalemme Liberata_ (Tasso) _Heb._ _Hebrews_ _Hos._ _Hosea_ _HRB_ _Historia Regum Britanniae_ (Geoffrey of Monmouth) _Hubberd_ _Mother Hubberds Tale_ (Spenser) intr. intransitive, intransitively _Isa._ _Isaiah_ _Josh._ _Joshua_ _Judg._ _Judges_ lit. literal, literally _LR_ Spenser's letter to Raleigh (see Introductory Matter) _Matt._ _Matthew_ _Met._ _Metamorphoses_ (Ovid) _Myth._ _Mythologiae_ (Comes) _Odes_ _Odes_ (Ovid) OE Old English _OED_ _Oxford English Dictionary_, 1989 edition _OF_ _Orlando Furioso_ (Ariosto) OFr Old French _PL_ _Paradise Lost_ (Milton) ppl. past participle prep. preposition, prepositional, prepositionally _Ps._ _Psalms_ refl. reflexive, reflexively _Rev._ _Revelation_ _Rinaldo_ _Rinaldo_ (Tasso) _Rom._ _Romans_ _RR_ _Ruines of Rome_ (Spenser) sb. substantive, substantival, substantivally _SC_ _The Shepheardes Calender_ (Spenser) _Song Sol._ _Song of Solomon_ sp., spp. species SU sense unique (i.e. this sense is found only here) SUFQ sense unique to _FQ_ sugg. suggested by SUS sense unique to Spenser _TM_ _Teares of the Muses_ (Spenser) trans. transitive, transitively