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Famous Edmund Spenser Quotes
“Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.”
“Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.”
“All flesh doth frailty breed!”
“All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.”
“The nightingale is sovereign of song.”
“And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.”
“For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.”
“Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.”
“Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.”
“Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.”
“For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.”
“The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.”
“Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.”
“So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”
“So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre”
“Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate”
“Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.”