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Quotation from The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

“In that disease of grieved conscience, And well could cure the same; his name was Patience.”

Edmund Spenser (spoken by Narrator)

The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto X, stanza 23 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903))

Portrait of Edmund Spenser

Coelia sends for a physician of the soul to treat the knight's despairing guilt.

Citation: "In that disease of grieved conscience, And well could cure the same; his name was Patience." — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto X, stanza 23 (Project Gutenberg #15272 (Wauchope, 1903)). (id the-faerie-queene-q8)

Virtues: Fortitude

Portrait: The Faerie Queene frontispiece, William Ponsonby, 16th century printer, Public domain.

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