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  • There learned arts do flourish in great honour
    And poets's wits are had in peerless price;
    Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
    Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
    For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
    Had people grace it gratefully to use:
    For God His gifts there plenteously bestows,
    But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

    Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.175