Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 488.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,

That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 502.

She what was honour knew,

And with obsequious majesty approv'd

My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower

I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven

[[238]]And happy constellations on that hour

Shed their selectest influence; the earth