A Ditty Comments

It's unmistakably Spenser. But it isn't in the supposedly all-including Smith/De Selincourt " Poetical Works" (Oxford UP 1912) . It's clearly shameless flattery of Elizabeth I. Thanks Poem Hunter!

SEE where she sits upon the grassie greene, (O seemely sight!) Yclad in Scarlot, like a mayden Queene, And ermines white: Upon her head a Cremosin coronet With Damaske roses and Daffadillies set: Bay leaves betweene, And primroses greene, Embellish the sweete Violet..... Lovely poem......

Muses trace! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

I fell that Spencer is a treasure still waiting to be unearthed, and easily comparerable with verse of that time from further-a-field.