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Alan Bryson

. after 1566). She perhaps knew him through Thynne, who was a friend and fellow evangelical. St Loe came from the senior gentry of Somerset, was a wealthy and successful soldier, and one of Elizabeth I’s most trusted servants and captain of the guard. About forty at the time, he was well educated, intelligent, charming, active and generous.36 ‘A man of grett hope: whose hardy, painfull, discrett, chargeable, and co[n]tynuall, good service’ was commended by the lord deputy of Ireland, St Loe could be ruthless, as when he defeated Gaelic Irish rebels in late summer 1548

in Bess of Hardwick
Raleigh’s ‘Ocean to Scinthia’, Spenser’s ‘Colin Clouts Come Home Againe’ and The Faerie Queene IV.vii in colonial context
Thomas Herron

–4. 102 Quinn, Raleigh, 155; on Raleigh’s Irish smelting industry, see Canny, ‘Raleigh’s’, 95. 103 Kenneth Nicholls, ‘Woodland Cover in Pre-Modern Ireland’, in Gaelic Ireland: Land, Lordship and Settlement c.1250–c.1650, ed. Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards, and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001), 181–206: 199. MUP_Armitage_Ralegh.indd 136 07/10/2013 14:09 Love’s ‘emperye’ 137 speaker. Summer otium turns forest of Error redolent of his colonial situation in Spenser’s poetry.104 A second material fixation of the poem is terrestrial and mineral

in Literary and visual Ralegh