'And chiefly thou, O Spirit that dost prefer
Before all temples the upright heart and pure,
Instruct me.'
And in the 'Paradise Regained' (Book i. 8-15):
'Thou Spirit, who ledst this glorious Eremite
Into the desert, his victorious field,
Against the spiritual foe, and broughtst him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted song, else mute,
And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds,