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

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For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;

For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 132.

For all that faire is, is by nature good;[29:3]

That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 139.

To kerke the narre from God more farre,[29:4]

Has bene an old-sayd sawe;

And he that strives to touche a starre

Oft stombles at a strawe.