The Faerie Queene, Book One Quotes

“Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.”
― Edmund Spenser, Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves

“Sleep after Toil, Port after stormy Seas,
Ease after War, Death after Life, does greatly please.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One

“The faithfull knight now grew in litle space, By hearing her, and by her sisters lore, To such perfection of all heavenly grace, That wretched world he gan for to abhore,”
― Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

“He seekes out mighty charmes , to trouble sleepy mindes.”
― Edmund Spenser, Book 1 of the Faery Queene