sband stays,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

_Paradise Lost, Book 9._

Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat
Build in her loveliest, and create an awe
About her, as a guard angelic placed.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._

Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions mix'd with love
And sweet compliance, which declare unfeign'd
Union of mind, or in us both one soul;
Harmony to behold in wedded pair
More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._

Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure,
Sober, steadfast, and demure.
* * * * *
With even step and musing gait;
And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy wrapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

_Il Penseroso._

Innocence and virgin modesty
Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired
The more desirable.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._

Lady, thy care is fix'd, and zealously attends
To fill thy odorous lamp with deeds of light.
And hope that reaps not shame.

_Sonnet._

A creature ...
... So lovely fair,
That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now
Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._

All things from her air inspired
The spirit of love and amorous delight.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._

It is for homely features to keep home--
They had their name thence: coarse complexions
And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply
The sampler and to tease the housewife's wool.

_Comus._

With dispatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
What choice to choose for delicacy best,
What order, so contrived, as not to mix
Tastes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring
Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change.

_Paradise Lost, Book 5._

I do not think my sister ...
... So unprincipled in Virtue's book
And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever,
As that single want of light and noise
Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts,
And put them into misbecoming plight.
Virtue could see to do what V