What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSERNo dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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