| FAERIEQUEENE | The -, 1590 epic poem by Edmund Spenser |
| GLORIANA | Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I, originated by Edmund Spenser in the 1590 epic poem The Faerie Queene (8) |
| ASYOULIKEIT | Shakespeare comedy based on the 1590 prose romance Rosalynde by English writer Thomas Lodge (2.3.4.2) |
| FAERIE | The _ Queene, epic poem by Edmund Spenser (6) |
| THEFAERIEQUEENE | Epic poem by Edmund Spenser (3,6,6) |
| PROTHALAMION | Spousal verse by Edmund Spenser, in honour of two daughters of the Earl of Worcester |
| FAERIES | Creatures of which Gloriana is the "Queene," in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| AMORETTI | Famous sonnet by Edmund Spenser |
| CHAUCER | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| GEOFFREY | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| BRAGGADOCIO | Empty boasting; from the name of a braggart in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (11) |
| VIOLETS | "She bath'd with roses red, and - blew, And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew." Sir Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (7) |
| ALADDIN | Depicted in illustrations by Edmund Dulac and animations by Disney, a character whose adventures are described by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights (7) |
| LAY | "Discord oft in music makes the sweeter ____" (Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene) |
| SPENSER | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| EDMUND | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| IRENA | Ireland, to 16th-century Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser |
| CANTO | Division of an Edmund Spenser work |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, English dramatist stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in 1593; Doctor Faustus (c. 1590), The Jew of Malta (c. 1592) etc. (7) |
| RIALTO | Bridge of 1590 |
