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Spenser, Edmund - Epithalamion, v. 340
Identifier
003237
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
Only a very tenuous link, but you don't write the sort of poetry that Spenser did and in such graphic detail without having ingested something and it looks like it was a fungus of some sort....
A description of the experience
Spenser - Epithalamion, v. 340
Robin Goodfellow [Puck],
His Mad Pranckes and Merry Jests (1639).
from the Folger Shakespeare Library
His Mad Pranckes and Merry Jests (1639).
from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Ne let housefires nor lightnings helpless harms,
Ne let the pouke [c]nor other evil sprites,
Ne let mischievous witches with their charms,
No let hob-goblins, names whom sense we see not,
Fray us with things that be not.