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“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

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.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

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?”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 2, stanza 42
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V

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

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

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

“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 40
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 17
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III

“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

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.”

Edmund Spenser

An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 139

“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

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.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.”

Edmund Spenser

Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie, line 209; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,
And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,
Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto vi, stanza 33
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VII

“That darksome cave they enter, where they find
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 9, stanza 35
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I