John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
263 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 263 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | For all that Nature by her mother-wit 1 Could frame in earth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto x. St. 21. |
| Note 1. Mother wit.—Christopher Marlowe: Prologue to Tamberlaine the Great, part i. Thomas Middleton: Your Five Gallants, act i. sc. 1. William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1. [back] |