John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
267 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 267 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto vi. St. 33. |