Spenser says of her in “Colin Clout’s Come Home Again”:
Urania sister unto Astrophel
In whose brave mind as in a golden coffer
All heavenly gifts and riches locked are
More rich than pearls of Ind, or gold of Ophir,
And in her sex more wonderful and rare.
In a dedicatory sonnet to “The Faery Queene” he says:
Your brother’s goodly image lives
In the divine resemblance of your face.
and elsewhere he repeats: