"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, /  So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
Education, A Poem: In Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenser's Fairy Queen.
See printings in ECCO and ESTC (1751, 1755, 1758, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1770, 1775, 1782, 1795). Collected in Dodsley, Bell, <u>Works of the English Poets</u>, Knox, and Anderson's <u>British Poets</u>. Reprints listed at <a href="http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?&textsid=34387">Spenser and the Tradition</a>.<br>
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See <u>Education, a Poem: in Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenserâ€™s Fairy Queen. By Gilbert West, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row, 1751). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T32431">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. by Several Hands</u> (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763).