{2} See _Colin Clouts Come Home Again_, vv. 180-184, quoted below. {3} This is the 'Lodovick' mentioned in Sonnet 33, quoted below. It was from him a little later, in 1588, that Spenser obtained by 'purchase' the succession to the office of the Clerk of the Government Council of Munster. _See_ Dr. Grosart's vol. i. p. 151. {4} Dr. Birch refers in his note to _The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork_, by Charles Smith, vol. i. book i. c. i. p. 58-63. Edit. Dublin 1750, 8vo. And Fiennes Moryson's _Itinerary_, part ii. p. 4. {5} Todd proposes to regard this date as a printer's error for 1595, quite unnecessarily. {6} Mr. Edward Edwards, 1868, I. c. vi.; see also _Colin Clouts Come Home Again_, vv. 312-319. {7} 'My lord of Essex hath chased Mr. Raleigh from the court and confined him in Ireland.'--Letter, dated August 17, 1589, from Captain Francis Allen to Antony Bacon, Esq.--Quoted by Todd from Dr. Birch's _Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth_.--See Mr. Edwards's _Life of Raleigh_, I. c. viii. {8} See Raleigh's lines entitled 'A Vision upon this Conceipt of the _Faery Queene_,' prefixed to the _Faerie Queene_.
CHAPTER III. 1590. Thus after an absence of about nine years, Spenser returned for a time to England; he returned 'bringing his sheaves with him.