...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...And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on...

...Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found 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 that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with...

...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 soul is found sincerely...guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on...

...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 soul is found 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...

...that dash't brute violence With sudden adoration, and hlank aw. So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chaslity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in deer dream, and solemn vision Tell her...

...noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heaven is saindy chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so,...thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each dung of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can...

...virginal Diana and Minerva as examples. According to the Brother, this virtue is so dear to heaven That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her. . . . Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted...

...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 soul is found 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...

...them — by practicing the doctrine of abstinence. As the Elder Brother puts it: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found 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...

...chaste austerity, 450 And noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration, and blank awe. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants0 Begin to cast a beam...