John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
256 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 256 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto viii. St. 2. |