From the oil painting by Benjamin Wilson, c. 1770 (after the lost original), at Pembroke College.

(By kind permission of the Master.)

Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers

SPENSER

BY

REV. W. TUCKWELL, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "CHAUCER."

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS

CIFT OF

RADCLIFFE COMAGE LIBRARY

1942

CHISWICK PRESS CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.