Book i

. Canto ix. St. 35._

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

_Faerie Queene. Book ii . Canto vi. St. 12._

And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

_Faerie Queene. Book ii . Canto viii. St. 1._

How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

_Faerie Queene. Book ii . Canto viii. St. 2._

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

_Faerie Queene. Book ii . Canto xii. St. 70._

Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush,[28-1] In hope her to attain by hook or crook.[28-2]

_Faerie Queene. Book iii . Canto i. St. 17._

Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,[28-3] And her conception of the joyous Prime.

_Faerie Queene. Book iii . Canto vi. St. 3._

Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.

_Faerie Queene. Book iii . Canto vi. St. 6._

Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold.[28-4]

_Faerie Queene. Book iii . Canto xi. St. 54._

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

_Faerie Queene. Book iv . Canto ii. St. 32._

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, 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.