As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
Edmund Spenser
Wisdom
A quote by Edmund Spenser
From the source
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 11.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.