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

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How can he mercy ever hope to have?[29:2]

Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 42.

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne;

For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed

As by his manners.

Faerie Queene. Book vi. Canto iii. St. 1.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,

And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,

Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto xi. St. 33.