I may tell you it is not a small token that.... : Quote by Thomas Hoby

“ I may tell you it is not a small token that a woman loveth when she giveth unto her lover her beauty, which is so precious a matter; and by the ways that be a passage to the soul (that is to say, the sight and the hearing) sendeth the looks of her eyes, the image of her countenance, and the voice of her words, that pierce into the lover's heart and give a witness of her love. ”

Thomas Hoby
  • From : The Book of the Courtier
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