Woman, that near turns motherhood to shame,
Womanliness to loathing"A
A: The Ring and the Book—The Pope, 911-915.
Such "denizens o' the cave now cluster round Pompilia and heat the furnace sevenfold." While she
"Sent prayer like incense up
To God the strong, God the beneficent,
God ever mindful in all strife and strait,
Who, for our own good, makes the need extreme,
Till at the last He puts forth might and saves."B
B: The Ring and the Book—Pompilia, 1384-1388.