# Edmund Spenser

- Quotes: 33
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser

## Books

- [The Faerie Queene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser/the-faerie-queene.md) — 33 quotes

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> As withered weed through cruell winters tine,
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> That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,
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> Liftes up his head, that did before decline
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> And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.

> A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
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> A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.

> Who will not mercie unto others show,
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> How can he mercy ever hope to have?

> Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
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> And her conception of the joyous Prime.

> For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,
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> And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,
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> Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

> And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
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> To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

> For all that Nature by her mother-wit
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> Could frame in earth.

> Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,
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> From the first point of his appointed sourse,
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> And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

> But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
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> Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

> And as she lookt about, she did behold,
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> How over that same dore was likewise writ,
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> Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold,
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> That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it
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> By any ridling skill, or commune wit.
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> At last she spyde at that same roomes upper end,
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> Another yron dore, on which was writ,
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> Be not too bold.

> Roses red and violets blew,
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> And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.

> Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
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> On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.