I have retained the original spelling and typography of quotations from medieval and early modern texts, except that I have silently expanded contractions, modernized i/j, u/v, uu/w, long s, and Middle English characters, and romanized nonmeaningful italicization. The exception is in quotations from Edmund Spenser, where I have followed the scholarly convention of retaining i/j and u/v spellings and all italicization. Early modern texts are quoted by page number when pagination is present and reliable. If there is some question about the reliability of an early modern volume’s pagination, I have included signature numbers as well as page numbers.
All biblical quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from The Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969).
Full bibliographical information for every source cited is given at first mention in the notes. More frequently cited sources are also listed in the select bibliography.