If Chaucer is the 'Well of English undefiled,' Spenser is the broad and stately river that yet holds the tenure of its very life from the fountain far away in other and ruder scenes.

如果乔叟是'未受污染的英语之源'，那么斯宾塞就是那条宽阔而庄严的河流，它的生命之源仍然来自于远方其他更为粗犷的场景。

The Canterbury Tales, so far as they are in verse, have been printed without any abridgement or designed change in the sense.

《坎特伯雷故事集》中的诗体部分，已经按照原样印刷，没有进行任何删减或有意改变其意义。