1. All quotations from Spenser will follow the variorum edition, ed. Edwin Greenlaw, et al., 10 vols. (Baltimore, 1932–57).
2. Greenlaw, “Shakespeare's Pastorals”,Studies in Philology, XIII (1916), 125; Thomas P. Harrison, Jr., “The Faerie Queene and theDiana”,Philological Quarterly, IX (1930), 51–6 W. W. Greg,Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama (London, 1905), pp. 100–1.
3. Dorothy Atkinson, “The Pastorella Episode inThe Faerie Queene”,PMLA, LIX (1944), 361–72.
4. Greenlaw, “Shakespeare's Pastorals”, pp. 122–54; and Harrison, “The Relations of Spenser and Sidney”,PMLA, XLV (1930), 712–31.
5. John Upton's annotations to his edition ofThe Faerie Queene (1758), II, 649–50; Merritt Hughes, “Spenser's Debt to the Greek Romances”,Modern Philology, XXIII (1925–6), 67–76. Hughes asserts that Spenser's indebtedness was not to any particular work or author but to the pastoral-romance tradition as a whole, which was quite familiar to the Elizabethans. On that tradition and its influence, see Samuel Wolff,The Greek Romance in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (New York, 1912).