The Queen’s Men

(notes edited by John McGivering)

Publication

Published in Rewards and Fairies (1910), accompanying the story “Gloriana” about Queen Elizabeth I.

Belphoebe: in line 18, was a virgin huntress in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene who, among other significances, is used (like ‘Gloriana’) as an image of Queen Elizabeth.

Dik Cadbury singing Peter Bellamy’s setting is here.

[J.McG.]