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Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.

— Edmund Spenser Prothalamion (1596)

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Notes from Wikiquote

This is often attributed to T. S. Eliot, who does indeed quote it in The Waste Land

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For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd,
As by his manners.

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For all that faire is, is by nature good;
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

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I learned have, not to despise,
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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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