Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 4 of 5: With Memoir and Critical Dissertations I. The ways, through which my weary steps I guide In this delightful land of Faery, Are so exceeding spacious and wide, And sprinkled with such sweet variety Of all that pleasant is to ear or eye, That I, nigh ravish'd with rare thoughts' dellght, My tedious travail do forget thereby; And, when I gin to feel decay of might, t strength to me supplies and cheers my dulled sprite. II. Such secret comfort and such heavenly pleasures, Ye sacred Imps, that on Parnasso dwell, And there the keeping have of Learning's treasures Which do all worldly riches far excel, Into the minds of mortal men do well,1 And goodly fury2 into them infuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.