| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXXIV. Most happy letters! fram’d by skilful trade | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | MOST happy letters! fram’d by skilful trade, | |
| With which that happy name was first design’d, | |
| The which three times thrice happy hath me made, | |
| With gifts of body, fortune, and of mind. | |
| The first my being to me gave by kind, | 5 |
| From mother’s womb deriv’d by due descent: | |
| The second is my sovereign Queen most kind | |
| That honour and large riches to me lent: | |
| The third, my love, my life’s last ornament, | |
| By whom my spirit out of dust was raised: | 10 |
| To speak her praise and glory excellent, | |
| Of all alive most worthy to be praised. | |
| Ye three Elizabeths! for ever live, | |
| That three such graces did unto me give. | | | | |
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