| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LIX. Thrice happy she! that is so well assured | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | THRICE happy she! that is so well assured | |
| Unto herself, and settled so in heart, | |
| That neither will for better be allured, | |
| Ne feared with worse to any chance to start; | |
| But, like a steady ship, doth strongly part | 5 |
| The raging waves, and keeps her course aright; | |
| Ne aught for tempest doth from it depart, | |
| Ne aught for fairer weather’s false delight. | |
| Such self-assurance need not fear the spite | |
| Of grudging foes, ne favour seek of friends: | 10 |
| But, in the stay of her own steadfast might, | |
| Neither to one herself nor other bends. | |
| Most happy she, that most assur’d doth rest; | |
| But he most happy, who such one loves best. | | | | |
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