John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
265 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 265 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have? 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 42. |
| Note 1. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.—Matthew v. 7. [back] |