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The Shepheardes Calender [1579]
Edmund Spenser
Transcribed by Richard S. Bear,
University of Oregon,
Winter 1993,
From the John C. Nimmo facsimile (London, 1895)
of the British Museum copy of the first edition.
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Note on this e-text edition.
This etext edition of /The Shepheardes Calender/ derives from the John C.
Nimmo facsimile (London, 1895) of the British Museum copy of the first
edition of 1579. It has been carefully compared with the Variorum edition
(Baltimore: 1943) and the Oxford edition (Smith and De Selincourt) of 1935.
Long "s" has been modernized, "vv" has been replaced by "w", and catchwords
have been omitted. Capital vowel-ligatures and ornamental initial letters
are indicated by capitalization of the first two characters (e.g.
"AEglog . . .
