Shepherds' Calendar

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This little book of music to the ear and to the mind was published in the year 1579, as the work of a new poet, introduced to the world by his friend E. K. An old colle e com anion, Edmund Kirke. The new poet was dmun Spenser, then twenty-six years, now three hundred and thirty-six years old and ever young. Edmund S ehser was of a Lancashire family, settled at Hurstwoo near Burnley, and in other parts of the same district. A. Lettice Nowell married a Lawrence Spenser, and we find aid to the education of Spenser the poet in a ms. Of the spending of the money of Robert Nowell. The aid shows that he was being educated at Merchant Taylors' School. A John Spenser was described in 1566 as a free journeyman in the art and mystery of cloth-making, at that time in the service of Nicholas Peele, shearman, of Bow Lane.