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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Gather the rose <strong>of</strong> love, whilst yet is time,<br />

Whilst loving thou mayst lovéd be with equal crime.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75<br />

<strong>The</strong> dunghill kind<br />

Delights in filth and foul incontinence:<br />

Let Grill be Grill, and have his hoggish mind.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 87<br />

Whether it divine tobacco were,<br />

Or panachaea, or polygony,<br />

She found, and brought it to her patient dear.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 3, canto 5, st. 32<br />

Hard is to teach an old horse amble true.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 3, canto 8, st. 26<br />

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 3, canto 10, st. 60<br />

And as she looked about, she did behold,<br />

How over that same door was likewise writ,<br />

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold...<br />

At last she spied at that room’s upper end<br />

Another iron door, on which was writ<br />

Be not too bold.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 3, canto 11, st. 54<br />

Dan Chaucer, well <strong>of</strong> English undefiled,<br />

On Fame’s eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 4, canto 2, st. 32<br />

For all that nature by her mother wit<br />

Could frame in earth.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 4, canto 10, st. 21<br />

O sacred hunger <strong>of</strong> ambitious minds.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 5, canto 12, st. 1<br />

A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,<br />

A dreadful fiend <strong>of</strong> gods and men ydrad.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 5, canto 12, st. 37<br />

<strong>The</strong> gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.<br />

For a man by nothing is so well bewray’d,<br />

As by his manners.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1<br />

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel<br />

Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway,<br />

But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel,

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