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Goe to my Love where she is carelesse layd
Yet in her winter's bowere not well awake;
Tell her the joyous time will not be staid
Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.

— Edmund Spenser

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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)

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