“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”
Canto 9, stanza 40
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
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