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How oft do they their silver bowers leave

Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Book II, Canto 8, stanza 2.

English (original)

How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

— Edmund Spenser

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