Quote#Nature
What more felicitie can fall to creature
Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Complaints (1591), Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie, line 209.
English (original)
What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
— Edmund Spenser
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