This essay places Edmund Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland (1596) into conversation with John Jones’ 1579 nursing manual Arte and Science in order to contextualize Spenser’s medical solution to Irish rebellion. For both, the Irish wetnurse, who controlled the political system of fosterage undermining England’s agenda in Ireland, is central to the corporate identity of a conjoined Anglo-Irish kingdom. A View’s relationship to Jones’ text reveals the vexed ontological landscape of England’s early imperial self-fashioning, which linked the re-engineering of the genetic nature of colonial bodies to the management of women’s reproductive labor.

这篇文章将埃德蒙·斯宾塞对爱尔兰现状的看法（1596 年）与约翰·琼斯 1579 年的护理手册艺术与科学进行了对话，以便将斯宾塞对爱尔兰叛乱的医疗解决方案置于语境中。对于两者来说，控制着破坏英格兰在爱尔兰议程的寄养政治制度的爱尔兰奶妈是英爱联合王国企业形象的核心。A View与琼斯文本的关系揭示了英国早期帝国自我塑造的令人烦恼的本体论景观，它将殖民机构基因性质的再造与女性生殖劳动的管理联系起来。