“Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss.”
“Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver’d nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour’d heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.”
“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
“That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.”
“Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.”
“These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.”
“When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.”
“Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor’d falsehood and base forgery?”
“Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”