Abstract
These words were written, not to Queen Elizabeth, but to her successor James I. But the carefully qualified relationship they evoke between the monarch and those poets who would sing his praises should he agree to favor them describes exactly the pact which Spenser hoped to establish with his prince. 'Let her accept me as her faithfull thrall,' he wrote in the guise of a Petrarchan lover supplicating a conventionally cruel mistress,
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