Milton - PR3550 D77 1777 M2

COMO And gladly hanith (quint fufpicion. My biller is not fa defenfells left As you imagine; the' has a hidden ftrength 415 Which y )u rem?rn',er 2 Bro. What hidden flrength, Unlefs the firength of fieav'n, if you mean that ? Eld. Bro. I mean that too, but yet a hidden thength, Which if 11:av'n gave it, may be term'd her own : 'Tis chaflity, my Brother, chaftity 420 She that has that, is clad in complete tleel, And like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen May trace huge forefls, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and Tandy perilous wilds, Where through the facred rays of chaftity 425 No tavage fierce, handite, or mountaneer Will dare to foil her virgin purity ; Yea there, where very defolation dwells By grots, and caverns fhagg'd with horrid (lades, She may pats on with unblench'd majefly, 436 lie it not done in pride, or in prefumption. Some fay no evil thing that walks by night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorith fen, Blue meager hag, or flubborn unlaid ghat., That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, 43; No goblin, or fwart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful pow'r o'er true virginity, Do ye believe me yet, or (hall I call Antiquity from the old fchools of Greece To tettify the arms of chaftity ? 440 nce had the huntrefs Dian her dread bow, Fair fiver -(hafted queen, for ever chafle, Wherewith the tani'd the brinded lionefa And (potted mountain pard, and fet at nought 1 he frivolous bolt of Cupid ; Gods and men 445 Feat'd her item frown, and the was queen o'th' woods. What

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