Surely Alastair Fowler's _Spenser and the Numbers of Time_ would have this.
I do know that, according to a German scholar of ca. 1900 named Waibel
(source forgotten) an earlier German scholar named Heise counted 389 long
similes in the FQ.
Dick Hardin
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From: David Wilson-Okamura [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: number of verses in FQ
Does anyone know of a convenient line-count for the various books and
cantos of The Faerie Queene?
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