The high point of the contemplative ascent described in Spenser's Fowre Hymnes is the poet's vision of Sapience, in 11. 183-287 of ‘An Hymne of Heavenly Beavtie’. Of the several feminine sovereigns in Spenser's poetry, Sapience is the most sublime. Her power to create and preserve encompasses all that is elsewhere delegated to Nature, Venus, Mutabilitie, and Gloriana.
Both heauen and earth obey vnto her will,
And all the creatures which they both containe:
For of her fulnesse which the world doth fill,
They all partake, and do in state remaine,
As their great Maker did at first ordaine,
Through obseruation of her high beheast,
By which they first were made, and still increast.
(197-203)