Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,

On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32.

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For all that Nature by her mother-wit[29:1]

Could frame in earth.

Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto x. St. 21.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 43.

Who will not mercie unto others show,