Edmund Spenser: Herring

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Edmund Spenser: 106 quotes6 likes

“The rolling wheel, that runneth often round,
The hardest steel in tract of time doth tear;
And drizzling drops, that often do redound,
The firmest flint doth in continuance wear:
Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear,
And long entreaty, soften her hard heart,
That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear,
Or look with pity on my painful smart:
But when I plead, she bids me play my part;
And when I weep, she says, "Tears are but water";
And when I sigh, she says, "I know the art";
And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter;
So do I weep and wail, and plead in vain,
Whiles she as steel and flint doth still remain.”

Edmund Spenser Amoretti

Amoretti (1595), Sonnet XVIII https://www.bartleby.com/358/784.html

“Behold, whiles she before the altar stands,
Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes,
And blesseth her with his two happy hands.”

Epithalamion, line 223; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Could frame in earth.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 10, stanza 21
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book IV

“Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid,
Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.”

Edmund Spenser Amoretti

Amoretti, lxx; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,
No arborett with painted blossoms drest
And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd
To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 6, stanza 12
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 6, stanza 3
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III

“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.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 5, stanza 32
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III

“But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 11, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V

“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 17
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III