If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
George Wither: The Shepherd's Resolution.
[26:3] Written in a glass window obvious to the Queen's eye. "Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, 'If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.'"—Fuller: Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419.
EDMUND SPENSER. 1553-1599.
Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.[27:1]
Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 1.
A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 1.