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nglish settlers had degenerated as much as the Mix-Hellenes who disgusted the Latin poet. Spenser 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 thennd all the busy pageantry That wise men scorn and fools adore. Yet he longed for London, if not with the homesickness of Bussy-Rabutin in exile from the Parisian sun, yet enough to make him joyfully accompany Raleigh thither in the early winter of 1589, carrying with him the first three books of the great poem begun ten years before. Horace's nonum premature in annum had been more than complied with, and the success was answerable to the well-seasoned material and conscientious faithfulness of