Edmund Spenser

Quotes

1. The noblest mind the best contentment has.

2. 

   O happy earth,

   Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

3. 

   Ay me, how many perils doe enfold

   The righteous man, to make him daily fall!

4. 

   Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

5. 

   Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush

   In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

6. 

   As when in Cymbrian plaine

   An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting,

   Doe for the milky mothers want complaine,

   And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

7. 

   Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

8. 

   Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went,

   To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy;

   For she of hearbes had great intendiment,

   Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy

   Her nourced had in trew Nobility:

   There, whether it divine Tobacco were,

   Or Panachaea, or Polygony,

   She found, and brought it to her patient deare

   Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.

9. 

   How oft do they their silver bowers leave

   To come to succour us that succour want!

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