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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

272 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:272
AUTHOR:Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
QUOTATION:What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th’ aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
ATTRIBUTION:Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209.
 


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