TALES FROM SPENSER
CHOSEN FROM THE FAERIE QUEENE
BY SOPHIA H MACLEHOSE
PUBLISHED BY
JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW,
Publishers to the University.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK.
London, Simpkin, Hamilton and Co.
Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes.
Edinburgh, Douglas and Foulis.
MDCCCXCII.
TO MY NEPHEWS
HAMISH AND CRAWFORD.
PREFACE.
In writing these Tales from "The Faerie Queene," no attempt has been made to interpret their allegorical or explain their historic bearing. Intended for children, the stories are related simply as stories, and therefore only those episodes in the poem most interesting and most complete in themselves have been chosen. In no case do the Tales pretend to relate the whole that Spenser tells of their heroes and heroines.
