August 25 1580
Title
August 25 1580
Subject
August 25
Description
Grey defeated by O’Byrne at Glenmalure in the Wicklow Mountains; Spenser “refers directly to the defeat in his account of the marriage of the Thames and the Medway” in FQ IV.xi.44, line 5—"balefull Oure, late staind with English blood" (a pun is made on the “balefull,” i.e., evil, mal-[O]ure). Spenser also references this loss in A View, "indicating that this first observation of Irish warfare imprinted itself on Spenser’s imagination." (Hadfield, 157)
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Citation
“August 25 1580,” Collections @ ECU, accessed September 21, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/642.
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