NPPF Cloutish: Spenser For [Pale] Fire

[Michael Joseph]

Perhaps the reference bikes its way past Spenser, to Skelton, who in 1521
wrote Colyn Cloute, and gave us Dame Sybly.

					 And the selfe same game
                                         Begone ys now with shame
                                         Amongest the sely nonnes :
                                         My lady nowe she ronnes,
                                         Dame Sybly our abbesse,
                                         Dame Dorothe and lady Besse,
                                         Dame Sare our pryoresse,
                                         Out of theyr cloyster and quere
                                         With an heuy chere,
                                         Must cast vp theyr blacke vayles,
                                         And set vp theyr fucke sayles,
                                         To catche wynde with their
					 ventales
                                         What, Colyne, there thou shales !
                                         Yet thus with yll hayles
                                         The lay fee people rayles.

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, sZ wrote:

> http://www.jimnielson.com/grooves/colin.html
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> These isolated allusions to Colin in the 1580s already exemplify the triplex
> person of the Cloutish trinity to come: author, character, and wholly ghost.
> But it is in an uneasy mix of the first and last that he tends to make his
> reappearances, a kind of extant patron saint of upwardly mobile pastoralists
> subject to endless revision as the attributes of the historical Spenser that
> are inconsistent with the closed myth of the calendrical Colin get
> anachronistically attached to him.
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