FAIRY LAND.
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Keightley, Thomas
The "gret giaunt" Sire Oliphaunt, however, informs him that
Here is the quene of Faërie, With harpe and pipe and simphonie, Dwelling in this place.
Owing to the fastidiousness of "mine hoste," we are unable to learn how Sir Thopas fared with the elf-queen, and we have probably lost a copious description of Fairy Land.
From the glimmering of the morning star of English poetry, the transition is natural to its meridian splendour, the reign of Elizabeth, and we will now make a few remarks on the poem of Spenser.