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Quotation from The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
“The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead as living ever him ador'd”
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto I, stanza 2 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903))
The red cross on the knight's breast is explained as a sign of devotion to Christ.
Citation: "The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead as living ever him ador'd" — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto I, stanza 2 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903)). (id the-faerie-queene-q2)
Portrait: The Faerie Queene frontispiece, William Ponsonby, 16th century printer, Public domain.
