Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hope her to attain by hook or crook.
Edmund Spenser
Hope
Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hope her to attain by hook or crook.
Edmund Spenser
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto i. St. 17.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.