On what thou hast of virtue: summon all,
For God toward thee hath done His part, do thine.
Paradise Lost, Book 9.
What higher in her society thou find'st
Attractive, human, rational, love still;
In loving thou dost well, in passion not
Wherein true love consists not.
Paradise Lost, Book 8.
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,