John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
259 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 259 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, 1 And her conception of the joyous Prime. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 3. |
| Note 1. The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.—Psalm cx. 3, Book of Common Prayer. [back] |