I am weaving poetry for them, and they get pleasure from reading it, but I in return get naught but a meager prize of - a meager, surface-level reading

providing a false Glosse (glosse v gloss)

might be able to understand it, but you can only judge it if you are of the learned - who can understand what Spenser is writing, to understand the intent and invention of it

terms used to describe immigrants, who were high-regulated and discriminated against

Shepherds will talk like Shepherds - which is why they use an old fashioned English - they won't talk like Lords, like Sidney

uncouthed - unacquainted; unknown

tell me what the public has said about me, and i'll write more after this

foolishness once someone has read you, they will know how foolish i was to either a) publish it or b) stay anonymous

unkown

the book whose parent is unknown - the book who is an orphan

the UNWORHTY.

Spenser published the Shephearde's Calendar anonymously - perhaps in fear of political pushback, as he wrote poetry to address politics

lie

When you finally begin to write poetry again, your name will be put into Heaven (immortality)

the Sun?

Shephearde meaning Orpheus

echoes Sidney's argument against English poetry

xenophobic !

sunburnt: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, "1": "Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . .."

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