“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”

— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto 8, stanza 2

About Edmund Spenser

1552 – 1599

English poet, author of the epic "The Faerie Queene".

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“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

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