Edmund Spenser Quotes

“Hurled his beame so scorching cruell hot,
   That living creature mote it not abide;
   And his new lady it endured not.
   There they alight, in hope themselves to hide   260
From the fierce heat, and rest their weary limbs a tide. XXX Faire seemely pleasaunce each to other makes,
   With goodly purposes, there as they sit:
   And in his falsed fancy he her takes
   To be the fairest wight that lived yit;   265
   Which to expresse, he bends his gentle wit,
   And thinking of those braunches greene to frame
   A girlond for her dainty forehead fit,
   He pluckt a bough; out of whose rifte there came
Smal drops of gory bloud, that trickled down the same.   270 XXXI Therewith a piteous yelling voice was heard,
   Crying, ‘O spare with guilty hands to teare
   My tender sides in this rough rynd embard;
   But fly, ah! fly far hence away, for feare”
― Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser

“Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.”
― Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser

“GOE, little booke: thy selfe present,
As child whose parent is unkent,
To him that is the president
Of noblesse and of chevalree:”
― Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser