Edmund Spenser Quote

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.

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. With mem. and critical diss., by G. Gilfillan (ed. 1876)