Spenser's "Shepheards Calender," March, II. 67 ff.: "At length within an Yvie todde (There shrouded was the little God) I heard a busie bustling.

This calender was the son of a king, and nephew of another king.

This was the work of one Bathurst, a fellow of Spenser's own college of Pembroke at Cambridge.[105] The Shepherd's Calender was Spenser's chief contribution to pastoral; indeed it was by so much his most important contribution that it would hardly be worth while examining the others did they not bear witness to a certain change in his attitude towards the pastoral ideal.

'Calender' is, I think, a defensible spelling.