Note 125 — BOOK XIII[1] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Edmund Spenser (circa 1552-1599), the poet, went to Ireland in 1580 as secretary to Lord Grey de Wilton, was in 1581 made clerk to the Irish Court of Chancery, and in 1588 clerk to the Council of Munster. In his View of the Stoic of Ireland, written in 1596, but not published till 1633, he advocates the most oppressive measures. His unpopularity in Ireland was extreme.—T.