...A Mask stand in for the tempted and crucified Christ when she speaks to Comus a truth through which dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the...Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures rear'd so high, Were shatter'd into heaps o're thy false head? (1:795-98) The materials...

...'sacred vehemence' should she undertake to convince him of chastity's power: Dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures reared so high, Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head. (795-8) Here the Lady's speech takes...

...her dazzling fence; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced. Yet, should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence That dumb things would be moved to sympathise, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures,...

...extrinsic to them too: Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures...

...her dazzling fence, Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc't; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...high, Were shatter'd into heaps o'er thy false head. (756-9, 790-99) Strikingly, at this climatic moment reason's presence in this exchange is described...

...taught her dazling fence, Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc't; Yet should I try, the uncontrouled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rap't spirits...Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures rear'd so high, Were shatter'd into heaps o're thy false head. (783-799) This speech...