One more piece of evidence that Spenser and his contemporaries would have
accepted the "Ille ego" lines as genuine: Georgius Fabricius says they are
in one of the few Latin editions of Virgil's works that was actually
published in England. See p. 581 in
Opera P. Virgilii Maronis. Pauli Manutii annotationes Brevissimae in
margine adscriptae. Homeri loca magis insignia, quae Virgilious imitatus
est. Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis obseruationes Virgilianae lectionis.
Londini: Excudebat H. Middletonus, impensis I. H[arrison], 1580. STC 24789.
This edition was reprinted in 1583, 1597, 1616, and 1632.
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