August 25 1580

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August 25 1580

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August 25

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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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“August 25 1580,” Collections @ ECU, accessed November 13, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/642.

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