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Saturday, September 28, 2019
Tiny House
Edmund Spenser (1522-1599), The Faerie Queene VI.v.38:
Small was his house, and like a little cage,
For his owne turne, yet inly neate and clene,
Deckt with greene boughes and flowers gay beseene.
Turne is glossed as needs in Abraham Stoll's edition.