Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
Edmund Spenser
Happiness
Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
Edmund Spenser
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 3.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.