This will be of interest to some: reading through the most recent issue of
Spenser Newsletter last night I came across the following notice:
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Thomas, Kerri Lynne. "A Note on Spenser's Translation of _Culex_." Spenser
Studies 12 (1998, for 1991): 205-06.
Spenser's "Virgil's Gnat" adds a phrase not found in his original:
line 400's "murdred troupes." Spenser found this idea in _The His-
tory of Jason_, Caxton's translation of Raoul Le Fevre's fifteenth
century romance _Fais de Jason_.
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Sounds like another great instance of generic contamination in this period:
Spenser knows the classical text at first hand, but he still reads it
through the filter of medieval romance.
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David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org/chaucer
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