And his true love faire Psyche with him playes,

Fair Psyche to him lately reconcyld,

After long troubles and unmeet upbrayes,

With which his mother Venus her revyld,

And eke himselfe her cruelly exyld:

But now in stedfast love and happy state

She with him lives, and hath him borne a chyld,

Pleasure, that doth both gods and men aggrate,

Pleasure, the daughter of Cupid and Psyche late.

TFQ–I actually just read this bit an hour ago, I haven’t been saving it up for Valentine’s Day. For more on Spenser and bliss in marriage, of course, read Lewis’s Allegory of Love.


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