ABSTRACT
Harington (1574-1612), was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn. As a godson of Queen Elizabeth, he began from his first time in London to frequent the court. The first of the passages below is ironically illuminated by the story about Harington's expulsion from court for having circulated among the ladies his translation of just this canto of the Furioso. The disclaimer in the second passage is lightly intended: as an allegorizer of Ariosto, Harington must know that Spenser intends both the senses he pretends not to be able to distinguish between. (In the context, perhaps it should be said, a Spenserian allusion is more likely than a Biblical one.)
