"The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners."
— Edmund Spenser

January 1, 1970

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Canto 3, stanza 1; Spenser here is referencing and paraphrasing a statement from the "Wife of Bath's Tale" of Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer: "he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."