### Clue: Provide with permanent income (accepting old penny's enough for Spenser) (5)
### Answer: ENDOW 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Provide with permanent income
  ENOW(old word for enough, as might be used by Edmund Spenser, English poet c.1552-1599) **containing**(accepting) D(abbrev. for old English penny, as in £ s d)