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er himself looked on his life in Ireland as a banishment. In his Colin Clout's come Home again he tells us that Sir Walter Raleigh, who visited him in 1589, and heard what was then finished of the Faery Queen,— 'Gan to cast great liking to my lore And great disliking to my luckless lot, That banisht had myself, like wight forlore, Into that waste, where I was quite forgot. The which to leave thenceforth he counselled me, Unmeet for man in whom was aught regardful, And wend with him his Cynthia to see, Whose grace was great and bounty most rewardful. But Spenser was already living at Kilcolman Castle (which, with 3,028 acres of land from the forfeited estates of the Earl of Desmond, was confirmed to him by grant two years later), amid scenery at once placid and noble, whose varied charm he felt profoundly. He could not complain, with Ovid,— Non liber hic ullus, non qui mihi commodet aurem, for he was within reach of a cultivated society, which gave him the stimulus of hearty admi