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After unusual cold, especially after snow, it is not uncommon to see an early spring appear, and so it was now, as Spenser says 'The fields did laugh, the flowers did freshly spring, The trees did bud, and early blossoms bore;
Nothing fascinates me so much as the stories in your papers about Mrs. Clymorr Busst's clever pearl earrings, made to resemble door knobs; and about Mrs. Spenser Coyne's determination to have Columbia University removed because it interferes with the view from her garage; and about little Mrs. Justin Wright's charming innocence in buying a whole steamship whenever she goes over to Europe.
"To return over the water, who would expect any thing poetical from East Smithfield? Yet there was born the most poetical even of poets, Spenser. Pope was born within the sound of Bowbell, in a street no less anti-poetical than Lombard-street. So was Gray, in Cornhill. So was Milton, in Bread-street, Cheapside.
So also the Temperance of Spenser, or Sir Guyon, but with mingling of much sternness: The system of Aristotle, as above stated, is throughout a mere complicated blunder, supported by sophistry, the laboriously developed mistake of Temperance for the essence of the virtues which it guides.
The count was an admirer of Spenser, and appeared to desire to embody the spirit of that poet of the ancient chivalry in the scene which he presented to the view of his illustrious guest when she entered his grounds. Every one seemed asleep.
Yet nathemore would it her body fit: Yet natheless to her, as her dew right, It yielded was by them that judged it. Faery Queene, B. IV. C 5. "'By them that judged it! and who are they? Spenser is here prophetic, and means the Reviewers. It has been generally whispered that the true Scotch Florimel has latterly lost her girdle of beauty.
But while Spenser and Sidney held that life as a preparation for eternity must be ordered and strenuous and devout but that care for the hereafter was not incompatible with a frank and full enjoyment of life as it is lived, Puritanism as it developed in the middle classes became a sterner and darker creed.
However, just now the stage was impossible. Spenser would find her immediately. She must go into another part of town, must work at something that touched his life at no point. She had often been told that her figure would be one of her chief assets as a player. And ready-made clothes fitted her with very slight alterations showing that she had a model figure.
Let us assume that Homer was a drunkard, that Virgil was a flatterer, that Horace was a coward, that Tasso a madman, that Lord Bacon was a peculator, that Raphael was a libertine, that Spenser was a poet laureate. It is inconsistent with this division of our subject to cite living poets, but posterity has done ample justice to the great names now referred to.
To which Pica rejoined, likewise talking out of Spenser, that Proteus would provide a nice ancient nymph to tend on them. Her father then chimed in, saying, "You will spare our nerves by keeping to dry land unless you can secure the ancient mariner who was with us yesterday." "Come, come, most illustrious," said Pica good-humouredly, "I'm not going to encourage you to set up for nerves.
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