Peabody Mrs. Elifabeth (Bulmer)

HOLINESS;

OR

THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE:

A TALE

FROM

SPENCER'S FAERIE QUEENE,

BY A MOTHER.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY E. R. BROADERS.

Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1836, By E. R. BROADERS,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BOSTON: Samuel N. Dickinson, Printer, 52 Washington Street.

Charles Lamb's Tales of Shakspeare, and James Cowden Clarke's Tales of Chaucer, suggested writing out the Legends of the Faerie Queene. For Spencer needs translation; his obsolete dialect throwing him out of the reach of children, whom it is so desirable to interest in the elder writers of English literature, and to the youngest of whom a Tale of Chivalry is always delightful.

But the peculiar charm of Spencer is, that a profound philosophy of moral life pervades it, which gradually dawns upon the reader

"A new morn risen on mid noon;"

And this again and again, at the successive

stages of experience: for his stories are an exhaustless mine of thought.

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