Faint heart neʹer won fair lady.
“The bold a way will find or make.”
King: Orpheus and Eurydice.
“Faint harts faire ladies neuer win.” (1569.)
Philobiblion Society’s Publications (1827, p. 22).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.