John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
254 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 254 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12. |