He imagines a mighty titaness, sister of Hecate and Bellona, most beautiful and most terrible, who challenges universal dominion over all things in earth and heaven, sun and moon, planets and stars, times and seasons, life and death; and finally over the wills and thoughts and natures of the gods, even of Jove himself; and who pleads her cause before the awful Mother of all things, figured as Chaucer had already imagined her:- Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld; Still moving, yet unmoved from her stead; Unseen of any, yet of all beheld, Thus sitting on her throne.
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church
Before her pass all things known of men, in rich and picturesque procession; the Seasons pass, and the Months, and the Hours, and Day and Night, Life, as "a fair young lusty boy," Death, grim and grisly;- Yet is he nought but parting of the breath, Ne ought to see, but like a shade to weene, Unbodied, unsoul'd, unheard, unseene- and on all of them the claims of the titaness, Mutability, are acknowledged.
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church
But you must imagine the estuary-you can only get that tiny peep of water, glittering like a great diamond that some young titaness has flung out of her necklace down among the hills."
"John Halifax, Gentleman"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik