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The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 9, st. 40 (1589-96) - Spenser, Edmund | WIST Quotations
Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.