Spenser's Imitations from Ariosto—Addenda

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In the June issue of last year (vol. XXXIV, no. 2, pp. 225 ff.) Mr. A. H. Gilbert published supplementary notes to my old paper on Spenser's imitations from Ariosto. Since he has brought the matter forward once more, I may as well supplement his supplement with a few stray addenda of my own, which I have stumbled on at intervals since 1897. Some of these were first observed by Upton, whose notes, as quoted in Todd's edition of 1805, had at that time escaped my attention. The list is confined to the ground covered by my old paper; it has nothing to do with the field opened by Mr. Gilbert, Spenser's conclusions and transitions in the manner of Ariosto.