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Quotation from The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto IX, stanza 40 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903))
Despair urges Redcrosse toward suicide with lulling, persuasive music that makes death seem a rest.
Citation: "Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please." — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto IX, stanza 40 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903)). (id the-faerie-queene-q6)
Portrait: The Faerie Queene frontispiece, William Ponsonby, 16th century printer, Public domain.
