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• Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 790...
• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
  And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd....
• Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 138...
• T is chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 420...
• Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd
  for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred....
• I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 560...
• I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 298...
• And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 727
• Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 1022...