"Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush."
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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642.
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet, who wrote such pastorals as The Shepheardes Calendar, Astrophell and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, but is most famous for the multi-layered allegorical romance, The Faerie Queene.
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