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Bert Hamilton asks: >Is Spenser's act in FQ 6.10.20 unique in literature, namely a poet entering >into his fiction under his well-known persona to reprimand one of his own >characters, so ticked off that he tells him to expect considerable >unhappiness when the story continues. I can't at present think of an instance, but this sounds like something Ariosto would do in Orlando Furioso. Ariosto does have his persona address the reader and impute feelings to him or her. Yours, Bill Godshalk