Discreetly, form the shade offered by pastoral, using a fiction within a fiction, Spenser too addresses his queen, but he speaks with much more “Satyrical bitternesse” than Gascoigne insofar as he criticizes not just place-seekers, avid for room at the top, but also the monarch who too readily is duped by the backbiting of the arriviste. He criticizes, in effect, the complicity of “evil report” and “light credence.” 60
 

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