Change, Time, and the God Who Does Not Change With the completion of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser might well have laid down his pen. The great moral sequence was finished. Holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice, and courtesy had each been given their place. Yet Spenser added something more — not another virtue, but a question. That question is Mutability. (the quality of being liable to undergo change or alteration.)