“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 10, stanza 9
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“O blissful poverty!
Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
Her real goods: and only mocks the great
With empty pageantries!”
Act V, Scene I, p. 56
Mariamne: A Tragedy (1723)
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