Spenserian Humor

A touch of Spenserian humor: Spenser has a witch create a false Florimell (Book 3) for her slothful and unattractive son, who is smitten with the beauty of the real Florimell. The witch uses materials from Petrarchan love sonnets to construct the lady ?Eactual lamps for eyes, actual golden wire for hair, and so on. When she’s finished, the False Florimell is just what she was made to be ?Ea Petrarchan lady, and that means she’s coy, distant, cruel toward her lover.