...And noble grace that dashed 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 her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell...

...strength' of chastity (414), which he figures through a metaphor of spiritual perception: So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, And . . . Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. (450-7) These lines recall the...

...like it in Comus, but to him then in his youth the process was one of high chastity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far oflfeach thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell...

...causing others discomfiture, hurt or harm, can certainly not strike you as decent. Now about chastity: 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 clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things...

...Saint Augustine June 19 Chastity Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul Elizabeth I June 20 Chastity So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far ojf each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell...