Edmund Spenser - Gentle Quotes

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Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play—
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

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A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

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So purely white they were,
That even the gentle stream, the which them bare,
Seemed foul to them, and bade his billows spare
To wet their silken feathers, lest they might
Soil their fair plumes with water not so fair
And mar their beauties bright,
That shone as Heaven's light,
Against their bridal day, which was not long:
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.

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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed,
As by his manners.

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The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline.

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For all that faire is, is by nature good;
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd,
As by his manners.

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For all that fair is, is by nature good;
That is a sign to know the gentle blood.

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How many great ones may remember'd be,
Which in their days most famously did flourish,
Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,
But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,
Because the living cared not to cherish
No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,
Which might their names forever memorize!

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Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.

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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
Of your loves couplement:
And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

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