...fess, with every inclination to embrace the Merry London, my most kindly uurse, That to me gave tbis life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An haute of ancient fame, The house of ancient fame can surely poet's connection with Lancashire, I fear...

...London came ; To merry London, my moft kindly nutfe, That to me gave this lifes firft native fource : Though from another place I take my name', AN HOUSE OF ANCIENT FAME. This houfe of ancient fame, hints at his defcent from the Spenfers of Althorp in Northamptonfhire,...

...lend Against their wedding-day, which was not long ; Sweet Thames ! run softly till I endmy song. n& At length they all to merry London came, To merry...kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native sourse, Though from another place I take my name, 130 An house of antient fame: There whilorae wont...

...lifenme, seems to have excited no inquiry into his parentage. He himself informs us, that he was born in merry London, my most kindly nurse. That to me gave...source, Though from another place I take my name, A house of ancient fame. But though Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth, and claims kindred...

...length they all to mery London came, To mery London, my most kyndly nurse, That to me gave this lifes first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of auncient fame : There when they came, whereas those bricky towres The which on Tlicimncs brodn aged...

...lifetime, seems to have excited no enquiry into his parentage. He himself informs us that he was born in tl Merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave...source, Though from another place I take my name, A house of ancient fame." But although Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth, and claims kindred...

...into his parentage. He himself informs us that he was born in ' Merry London, my moat kindly nnrae, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place 1 take my name, A' house of ancient fame." But although Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth,...

...lifetine, seems to have excited no inquiry into his parentage. He himself informs us that he was born in " Merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave...source, Though from another place I take my name, A house of ancient fame." But although Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth, and claims kindred...

...Chaucer, a native of London, and like him, also, he has recorded the circumstance in his poetry : — stamp'd an image of himself, a sov'reign of the world....crowd admire the lofty sound; A present deity, they паше, An house of ancient fame. Protlialamiun. He was born at East Smithfield, near the Tower,...

...says in his ' Prothalamion,' or poem on the marriages of the two daughters of the Earl of Worcester, At length they all to merry London came, To merry...life's first native source, Though from another place 1 take my name, An house of ancient fume. It is commonly said, on the authority of Oldys, that he was...