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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January 13 1599]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[January 13]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser dies in London. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson, 202) “Ben Jonson told Drummond ‘that the Irish having robbed Spenser’s good and burnt his house and a little child new born, he and his wife escaped, and after[wards] he died for lack of break in King Street.’” (Maley, 80) Hadfield speculates that Spenser may have died from illness, disease, and/or trauma brought on from the loss of his estate, or simply old age. (391)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January 16 1599]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[January 16]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spenser is buried in Westminster Abbey, with an inscription reading; “Here lyes, expecting the second comminge of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose divine spirit needs noe other witnesse than the workes which he left behind him.” (Maley, 80)  The second earl of Essex pays for Spenser’s funeral.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[References ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Biography.&rdquo; <em>Spenser Online</em>, http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/scholarly-resources/biography/. Accessed March 2018. <br /><br />Hadfield, Andrew. <em>Edmund Spenser: A Life</em>. Oxford UP, 2012. <br /><br />Judson, Alexander C. <em>The Life of Edmund Spenser</em>. Edited by Greenlaw, E., Osgood, C.G., Padelford, F.M., Heffner, R.Oxford UP, 1945. <br /><br />Maley, Willy. <em>A Spenser Chronology</em>. MacMillian, 1994. <br /><br />Spenser, Edmund. <em>Selected Letters and Other Papers</em>. Edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher, Oxford UP, 2009.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[September 7 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lord Grey receives the sword of state and takes the oath of office. Spenser likely recalls this ceremony in the <em>FQ</em> when Artegall receives Chrysaor, "the sword of adamant and gold whose terrible strokes nothing on earth could resist." (Judson, 89)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[October 5 1580]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Spenser and Grey are sheltered by Thomas Butler, tenth earl of Ormonde, at his castle in Kilkenny. "In a dedicatory sonnet to Ormonde published with the <em>FQ</em>, Spenser praises the earl's 'braue mansione' as a veritable oasis of learning and refinement in a beautiful yet barbarous land, and speaks of the generosity and 'true honour' of its master." (Judson, 89-90)]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[July 4 1581]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Spenser travels with Grey to the Ulster Blackwater, where Spenser is moved to write a description of eastern Ulster in the View: &quot;a most beautiful and sweet country as any is under heaven.&quot; (Judson, 99-100)]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[April 26 1585]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Spenser with Norris at parliamentary proceedings in Dublin. Spenser seems to express personal interest in the legislation discussed here in the <em>View</em>. (Judson, 116)]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Branson Worrell]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[<strong>Nickname:</strong> Brain NC <br /><br /><strong>Home</strong>: Burlington, Alamance Favorite <br /><br /><strong>Color:</strong> Blue/purple TV <br /><br /><strong>Show:</strong> Murphy's Place <br /><br /><strong>Pets</strong>: Cockatiel (Cluck) <br /><br /><strong>Profile:</strong> I enjoy fitness and working out. I just recently finished my last year as a college wrestler. <br /><br /><strong>Education:</strong> I have a BS in biology as well as a minor in business administration. <br /><br /><strong>Hobbies:</strong> Lifting weights <br /><br /><strong>Unique Attributes:</strong> I was all-conference, a regional runner up, and a national qualifier in my final NCAA wrestling season.]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kilcolman by T. Crofton Croker, Researches in the South of Ireland (London: John Murray, 1824): 108-09.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Dr. Thomas Herron, ECU]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engraving of Kilcolman after T. Crofton Croker. From Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Hall, Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, etc. 3 vols (London: How and Parsons, 1841-3): I.93.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Dr. Thomas Herron, ECU]]></dcterms:source>
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