Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Faerie Queene.
Love Quotes
Love of your selfe [Redcrosse], [the False Una] said, and deare constraint/ Lets me not sleepe, but waste with wearie night/ In secret anguish… (I.i.53)
Religion Quotes
And on [Redcrosse's] brest a bloddie Crosse he bore,/ For deare rememberance of his dying Lord. (I.i.2)
Politics Quotes
Upon a great adventure [Redcrosse] was bound,/ That greatest Gloriana to him gave… To winne him worship, and her grace to have,/ Which of all earthly thinges he most did crave. (I.i.3)
Morality and Ethics Quotes
Virtue gives her selfe light, through darkness for to wade. (I.i.13)
Coming of Age Quotes
Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde,/ Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remain… Yet armes til that time did [Redcrosse] never wield. (I.i.1)
Justice and Judgment Quotes
Halfe furious unto his foe he came,/ Resolved in mind all suddenly to win. (I.i.24)
Appearances Quotes
And that new creature borne without her dew,/ Full of the makers guile with usage sly/ [Archimago] taught to imitate that Lady trew [Una],/ Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew. (I.i.46).
Loyalty Quotes
Long after lay he musing at her mood,/ Much grieved to thinke that Gentle Dame [Una] so light. (I.i.55)