...unconqucr'd virgin, Wherewith she frcez'd her foes to congeal'd stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity, And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey...

...majesty. No goblin, or smart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, • And in clear dream and solemn vision,...

...serious doctrine, the Elder Brother equates lust with the intrusion into the soul of an incarnate evil: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell...

...schools of Greece." Well-schooled he surely is — but we see his lack of experience when he declares: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a...sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . . . [453-56] He knows his Plato well and overawes the...

...importance in today's world, where such victimization occurs frequently. 27. Note also the Elder Brother's "So dear to Heav'n is saintly chastity, / That when...is found sincerely so, / A thousand liveried angels lackey her" (ll. 435-55). An article complementary to the present remarks is Irene Tayler's "Say First!...

...lost, voices the danger she faces, and does so in terms of the conflict between chastity and desire: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a...sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things...

...attempting to deny them — by practicing the doctrine of abstinence. As the Elder Brother puts it: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a...sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th'outward shape, The unpolluted...

...her chaste carriage, which Elder Brother admiringly and suggestively invokes in a mythographic icon: What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield That wise...congeal'd stone, But rigid looks of Chaste austerity lusive mode at the masque's end: the silent presence of her allusive body, restored, after 'Listen...

...nought The frivolous bolt of Cupid; gods and men 445 Fear'd her stern frown, and she was queen o' th' Woods. What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield That...looks of Chaste austerity 450 And noble grace that dash't brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That...

...time. No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt " When her husband was very sick, Alcestis...