Read full poem →The 1590, 1596, 1609 editions of _F. Q._ have been described already.
In 1611 Lownes (the publisher of the 1609 _F. Q._) set about a complete
edition of Spenser’s poems. But having on hand unsold copies of 1609,
Dictionary Entry
To initiate or begin some action.
In a Sentence
“He set about designing his homepage.”
Origin
From Middle English setten ‘to cause to sit’ + about, meaning ‘to begin to do something’.
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Poetry examples for “set about”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the poem; with the result that in the autumn of that year Spenser
accompanied Raleigh to London, and set about the publication of Books
I-III. The volume was licensed to William Ponsonbye on Dec. 1, 1589.
Read full poem →How would you live, with neighbours set about you--
Poictiers and Brive, untaken Rochechouart,
Read full poem →I beg you, my friendly critics,
Do not set about to procure me an audience.
Read full poem →Tell your simple tale, and it may do the young bard good.' Think you
so? Then it must be set about. But how to weave the old web anew--how
to hoist the same rope again and again--how to continue the interest
Read full poem →‘An Epilogue—things can’t go on without it;
It could not fail, would you but set about it.’ 10
‘Young man,’ cries one—a bard laid up in clover—
Read full poem →A party in the school strongly set about nicknaming
it "Cop;" another tried to call it "Trasy;" and the