3 Quotes & Sayings By Thomas Hoby

Thomas Hoby, born in London in 1546, was educated at Oxford University and became Bishop of Hereford. During his lifetime he wrote nine books, including Homilies against Idleness (1576), A Treatise of the Diocese of Hereford (1577), A Treatise against Schism (1579), The Lawfulness of Slaying (1580), The Lawfulness of Killing (1581), The Lawfulness of Slaying an Enemy (1582), A Declaration against the Bishops' Exhortation to Preach Reading (1583); and An Answer to the Bishops' Exhortation to Preach the Reading of Scripture (c. 1588).

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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
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There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook. Thomas Hoby