So Well To Know Her Own, That What She Wills To Do Or Say Seems Wisest, Virtuousest, Discreetest, Best.

Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 561...
And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 43...
And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 47...
And feel that I am happier than I know.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 282...
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 502...
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 488...
Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 163...
To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 192...
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 383...