Quote#God & Faith
So every spirit, as it is most pure
Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Fowre Hymnes (1596), An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 127.
English (original)
So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight: For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
— Edmund Spenser
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Uncouthe, unkiste, sayde the olde famous poete Chaucer.