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For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Fowre Hymnes (1596)
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd,
As by his manners.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
For all that faire is, is by nature good;
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Fowre Hymnes (1596)
I learned have, not to despise,
What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
Complaints (1591)
Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
The Faerie Queene (1589)
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Could frame in earth.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
How oft do they their silver bowers leave
To come to succour us that succour want!
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name
Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
That darksome cave they enter, where they find
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
Another [Epitaph] of the Same (1586)
Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
The Faerie Queene (1589)