John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
258 Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 258 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| QUOTATION: | Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, 1 In hope her to attain by hook or crook. 2 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto i. St. 17. |
| Note 1. Through thick and thin.—Michael Drayton: Nymphidiæ. Thomas Middleton: The Roaring Girl, act iv. sc. 2. Kemp: Nine Days’ Wonder. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto ii. line 370. John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, part ii. line 414. Alexander Pope: Dunciad, book ii. William Cowper: John Gilpin. [back] |
| Note 2. See Skelton, Quotation 5. [back] |