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Excerpt from A Poem in Six Books: With the Fragment Mutabilitie
The Faerie Queene was the product Of certain definite condi tions which existed in England toward the close Of the sixteenth century. The first Of these national conditions was the move ment known as the revival of chivalry; the second was the spirit of nationality fostered by the English Reformation; and the third was that phase Of the English Renaissance commonly called the revival of learning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
