Epigraph
“On Religious Studies.”
“Chaste and modest writings never alter the honour of any gentlewoman. For as the remembrance of infamous persons is much detested and hated by the Muses—so is the glory and renown of the virtuous installed by them in eternal memory for ever.”
Pastorals of Julietta. Fol. Edit. 1610.
Pt. 3, p. 88.
So in this pilgrimage I would behold
You, as you are—Virtue’s Temple!
Donne’s Poems. Edit. 1650. p. 156.
[To the Countess of Bedford.]