Spenser quotes

Old Mother Wit, and Nature gave Shakespeare and Fletcher all they have; In Spenser, and in Jonson, Art Of slower Nature got the start.

- SirJohn Denham
  'On Mr  Abraham Cowley'.

Thee gentle Spenser fondly led; But me he mostly sent to bed.

-Walter Savage Landor
  'To Wordsworth:  Those Who Have Laid the Harp  Aside'.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

-Thomas Nashe
  Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.