Quote#Nature
For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Book IV, Canto 10, stanza 21.
English (original)
For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth.
— Edmund Spenser
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