John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
251 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 251 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, 1 And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 11. |
| Note 1. ”Milky Mothers,”—Alexander Pope: The Dunciad, book ii. line 247. Sir Walter Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxviii. [back] |