“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”
Canto 2, stanza 32
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book IV
“A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.”
Canto 12, stanza 37
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
“Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have?”
Canto 2, stanza 42
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
Canto 3, stanza 1; Spenser here is referencing and paraphrasing a statement from the "Wife of Bath's Tale" of Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer: "he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VI
“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”
Canto 1, stanza 17
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III
“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”
Canto 2, stanza 43
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
“For all that faire is, is by nature good;
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 139
“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
Canto 10, stanza 9
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie, line 209; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Canto vi, stanza 33
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VII
Canto 9, stanza 35
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I