Sober, steadfast, and demure.
* * * * *
With even step and musing gait;
And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy wrapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

_Il Penseroso._


Innocence and virgin modesty
Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired
The more desirable.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._


Lady, thy care is fix'd, and zealously attends
To fill thy odorous lamp with deeds of light.
And hope that reaps not shame.

_Sonnet._


A creature ...
... So lovely fair,
That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now
Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd.