John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
260 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 260 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 6. |