Edmund Spenser: Nothing

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“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“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