us 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, substantivall