Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly… — Edmund Spenser
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.
1590
★ 4.4Provenance
Current citation
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, edited by Carol V. Kaske. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, bk. 1 canto 9, st. 40.
Original citation
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9.