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Quotation from The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
“Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall, Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.”
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto VIII, stanza 1 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903))
The poet introduces Arthur's rescue of the imprisoned knight by naming grace and truth as the righteous man's only safety.
Citation: "Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall, Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all." — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto VIII, stanza 1 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903)). (id the-faerie-queene-q5)
Portrait: The Faerie Queene frontispiece, William Ponsonby, 16th century printer, Public domain.
