ABSTRACT
From The History of the Worthies of England (1662), pp. 219-20; repro in edition ofp. Austin Nuttall (1840), II. 379-80: EDMOND SPENCER born in this City,* was brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, where he became an excellent Scholar, but especially most happy in English Poetry, as his works do declare. In which the many Chaucerisms used (for I will not say affected by him) are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes, known by the learned to be beauties to this book; which notwithstanding had been more salable, if more conformed to our modern language.
