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Title: The Faerie Queene Volume 1

Author: Edmund Spenser

Editor: Jonathan Barnes

Release Date: January 21, 2005 [EBook #6930]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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A NOTE ON THIS EDITION

This is an electronic edition of Volume One of Edmund Spenser's
_Faerie Queene_. You are encouraged to use and copy it.

The edition includes the following elements:

- an entirely new composite text, based on the edition of 1596 (the
"Original Text")

- details of departures, or proposed departures, from the copy text
(the "Textual Appendix")

- a modernized version of the Original Text (the "Shadow Text")

- definitions of difficult words and phrases in the Shadow Text (the
"Glossary").

The Original Text was not scanned, but typed, and proofed against the
Scolar Press facsimile (see Bibliography). Editing took place between
November 1989 and July 1992, using EMACS.

Edition 10 (faeri10.txt) was prepared especially for Project Gutenberg
in February 2003.

Thus edition (August 2004) corrects a few errors in the convention for
italic type. A few definitions appearing in the wrong place have also
been fixed, as have anomalous top-bit set characters in the Hales
Biography, which has been reformatted to make it easier to read.

The edition is best viewed with a monospaced font. Plain ASCII
text is used throughout. Accented, etc., characters are indicated by
symbols contained in curly brackets, e.g.:

{e/} = lower-case e + acute accent (pointing up to right)
{e\} = lower-case e + grave accent (pointing up to left)
{o^} = lower-case o + circumflex accent
{o"} = lower-case o + diaeresis mark
{e~} = lower-case e + tilde
{ae} = lower-case ae diphthong
{Ae} = ae diphthong w