Wrong'd, yet not daring to expresse my paine,
To you (great Lord) the causer of my care,
In clowdie teares my case I thus complaine
...
Read full text
But if that any Oedipus vnware... Was Edmund Spenser the son of Elizabeth 1 and Robert Dudley or was he her lover, or was he both as Oedipus might suggest?
Don't give up. After the first hour of ploughing through the mysterious spelling, it gets easier to read. Not easy, but easier. But after such concentration on individual words, the modern reader has trouble keeping the strands of the meaning in hand. Spoiler Alert: I'm not sure but I think he buried the Gnat toward the end.