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In fact, in the early books of the poem, we know to a certainty of but one real characterthe fair huntress Belphoebe, who, the poet assures us, was meant for the queen, as a most virtuous and beautiful lady." The queen, when the first part of the poem was published, was in her fifty-seventh year, and when we read the glowing description of the form and beauty of Belphoebe, we might be tempted to class Spenser among those adulators who gave her all the charms of youth when she was an old woman. But in so doing we should do him injustice. Spenser was born and lived in London, as I think on the southern or Kentish side of the river. I have shown that the most probable year of his birth was the year 1551, and supposing him when fifteen or sixteen years of age to have often seen the queen, who was then we may say in her prime, riding as she always did through the streets of London, and probably in huntress' attire, to her favourite palace of Greenwich to hunt the deer in the park; or, supposing that he may at times have obtained admission into the park, and seen her bending her bow at the flying game, may not this sight have created Belphoebe in his strong and susceptible imagination? Even when he had last seen her before his going to Ireland in 1580, the queen was only forty-seven, and her beauty was probably little impaired. Surely, then, the poet was not to blame for describing her in 1590 as he recollected her in her younger days. I find, by the way, that there are persons who would sacrifice historic truth to false delicacy, and who blame me and others for vindicating the fair fame of the great queen from the foul aspersions of Dr. Lingard and his authorities, even though somewhat at the expense of her heroism. I am, however, not of them, and no literary act of mine ever gave me more sincere pleasure. The quotation from Randolph's letter in one of the replies I regard as of great importance, as it proves that in 1565 some of the best informed persons knew or believed that Elizabeth never would be a mother. The queen's words when she was informed of the birth of Mary's son are also very significant. As to her apparently serious intention of marrying Anjou when she was nearly fifty, it is easy of explanation.* To proceed, then, Timias and Amoret were regarded by some critics as Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Trogmorton; but the latter was in no way akin to the queen, and Amoret is sister to Belphoebe. I am therefore inclined to see in this last Lettice Knollys, the queen's cousin, first married to Lord Essex, and then, to Elizabeth's great displeasure, to the Earl of Leicester, whom I take to be Timias, in whose name there may be an allusion to Leicester's motto, "Droyte et Loyall"; he is the squire of Prince Arthur, and the Dudley family were strongly attached to the house of Tudor; and his being wounded by the "josters," and secured and restored to health by Belphoebe, may allude to the ruin of his family at the accession of Mary, and its restoration by that of Elizabeth. By Sir Scudamore may be meant the Earl of Essex. In Marinel of the Rich or Precious Strond Upton saw Lord Howard of Effingham, High Admiral of England, and in his treasures from * See Fielding's Joseph Andrews, i. ch. 6; Marivaux, Le Paysan Parvenu, séconde partie, vers la fin. |