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   "Andrew Chaplin"  wrote in message   
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   >> "Andrew Chaplin"  wrote in message   
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   >> >> Why did Edmund Spenser write "Epithalamion"?   
   >> >   
   >> > Spenser was a Protestant and appalled at the excesses of Rome; his   
   >> > "Faerie Queene" is considered the best of the mock heroic epics,   
   > but   
   >> > in the case of "Epithalamion," he was dealing with a Boyle.   
   >>   
   >> But "why" did he write it?   
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   > He had married the Boyle -- Elizabeth, that is -- and that was why he   
   > had to deal with her. An epithalamion is a wedding song for the   
   > threshold of the bed chamber.   
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   > Andrew Chaplin   
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