On 18 Apr 2001, at 13:06, Carol V. Kaske wrote:
> The proemic verses appear in my own 1580s Vergil ed. Badius Ascensius, et
> al.We are planning to exhibit such an ed. at the Rare Books Exhibit at the
> conference in Cambridge in July.
A more interesting question than Spenser's view of the proemium is
the rationale for including it in early editions, such as the one above.
Do the editors address the issue or give any explanation? If the
main editions he would have read printed the quatrain, then he's
likely to have accepted it despite the absence of any MS support.
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