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53 Of all who speak our English tongue, but those of your device. device > devising 254255 _W. R._ W. R. > (Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618, poet, soldier, explorer, scholar,statesman, and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who granted him, in1584, a patent for the exploration and settlement of the Americas.Later he fell from her good graces, and after many hardships andadventures was beheaded by James I. Probably an exact contemporaryof Spenser. He had a huge estate near Spenser's in southernIreland, and under his auspices _FQ_ was published, and dedicatedto Elizabeth) 256257258 To the learned Shepheard.259260 _COllyn I see by thy new taken taske,261 some sacred fury hath enricht thy braynes,262 That leades thy muse in haughtie verse to maske,263 and loath the layes that longs to lowly swaynes.264 That lifts thy notes from Shepheardes vnto kings,265 So like the liuely Larke that mounting sings.266267 Thy louely Rosolinde seemes now forlorne,268 and all thy gentle flockes forgotten quight,269 Thy chaunged hart now holdes thy pypes in scorne,270 those prety pypes that did thy mates delight.271 Those trustie mates, that loued thee so well,272 Whom thou gau'st mirth: as they gaue thee the bell.273274 Yet as thou earst with thy sweete roundelayes,275 didst stirre to glee our laddes in homely bowers:276 So moughtst thou now in these refyned layes,277 delight the dainty eares of higher powers.278 And so mought they in their deepe skanning skill279 Alow and grace our Collyns flowing quill.280281 And fare befall that _Faerie Queene_ of thine,282 in whose faire eyes loue linckt with vertue sits:283 Enfusing by those bewties fiers deuyne,284 such high conceites into thy humble wits,285 As raised hath poore pastors oaten reede,286 From rusticke tunes, to chaunt heroique deedes.287288 So mought thy _Redcrosse knight_ with happy hand289 victorious be in that faire Ilands right:290 Which thou doest vayle in Type of Faery land291 Elyzas blessed field, that _Albion_ hight.292 That shieldes her friendes, and warres her mightie foes,293 Yet still with people, peace, and plentie flowes.294295 But (iolly Shepheard) though with pleasing style,296 thou feast the humour of the Courtly traine:297 Let not conceipt thy setled sence beguile,298 ne daunted be through enuy or disdaine.299 Subiect thy dome to her Empyring spright,300 From whence thy Muse, and all the world takes light._301 Hobynoll.257258 _To the learned shepherd_ shepherd > (Spenser's _The Shepheardes Calender_, a work of pastoralpoetry, was published in 1579) 259260 Colin, I see by your new-taken task, Colin > (Colin Clout, principal voice in _SC_; in 1595 Spenserpublished _Colin Clouts Come Home Again_, dated 27 December 1591) 261 some sacred fury has enriched your brains, fury > frenzy 262 That leads your Muse in haughty verse to mask, Muse > (The nine Muses are the daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne(Memory); each presides over an area of the arts and sciences andgives inspiration to its practitioners. The Muse referred to isprobably Clio, the Muse of History)haughty > noble, high-mindedmask > disguise [herself] 263 and loath the lays that long to lowly swains. lays > songslong to > befit, beseem; are appropriate toswains > young men 264 That lifts your notes from shepherds to kings,265 So like the lively lark that, mounting, sings.266267 Your lovely Rosalind seems now forlorn,
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