it may be could do, little for his client. _The Shepherd’s Calendar_ was published in 1579, a year or two after Spenser came to London, but he had no share in “the rich fee which poets won’t divide.” There is no need to look far for the causes of his disappointment. Elizabeth had little money, and much to do with it, while her Lord Treasurer, Burghley, who had no love for Leicester, was the man to meet any pensioned poet with the ungracious attitude of Sully to Casaubon: “You are no use, sir, and you cost the king as much as two captains.” In 1580 Spenser accompanied Lord Grey to Ireland, where estates of confiscated land were to be won. From that time he was plunged into the horrible strife between the anarchy of Celtic Ireland and the repression of the queen’s officers, who fought for order with ferocious means. He obtained a grant of land in County Cork, married in 1594, and reached some measure of prosperity. A small but apparently ill-paid pension was granted him. The rebellion of 1598 shattered his fortunes altogether. His house at Kilcolman was burnt in the usual fashion of the brutal Irish wars, and it was said that one of his children perished with it. Spenser fled to England, and died on the 16th January 1599--“for lack of bread,” according to Ben Jonson, and undoubtedly in great poverty. [SN: _Order of his work._] It seems certain that he began writing very young, for some translations from Petrarch and Joachim du Bellay, which were afterwards reprinted unchanged, or changed only by rhyme, in his acknowledged works, appeared in _The Theatre of Voluptuous Worldlings_ of John Van Noodt in 1569. Ten years, however, passed before he published _The Shepherd’s Calendar_, and then an equal period before he prepared to bring out the first three books of _The Faërie Queen_, which was registered at Stationers’ Hall on the last day of 1589, and appeared in the following spring. Next year--1591--appeared the minor poems, under the name of _The Complaints_ (_The Ruins of Time_, _The Tears of the Muses_, _Virgil’s Gnat_, _Mother Hubberds Tale_, _The Ruins of Rome_, _Muiopotmos_, and _The Visions_). The address to the reader gives a promise of other poems, which have been lost; and it may be noted that the same thing had happened with _The Shepherd’s Calendar_. The _Daphnaida_ followed. In 1596 the _Amoretti_, the _Epithalamium_, _Colin Clout’s Come Home Again_, the fourth, fifth, and sixth books of _The Faërie Queen_, the Hymns, and the _Prothalamium_ were published within a short time of one another. Nothing more was to appear in his life. Part of a seventh book of _The Faërie Queen_, and a prose treatise giving a very vivid, very true, and very terrible “View of the Present State of Ireland,” were printed after his death. The treatise did not come out for thirty years, when it was published by Sir J. Ware. The Fragments were included in the new edition of _The Faërie Queen_ in 1611.