Sonnet XX.

No other but a woman’s reason;
I think him so, because I think him so.

      Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 1, S. 2.

      The hand that hath made you fair hath made
    you good:  the goodness that is cheap in beauty
    makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace
    being the soul of your complexion, should keep
    the body of it ever fair.

      Measure for Measure, A. 3, S. 1.

If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.

As You Like It, A. 2, S. 7.

If she do frown, ’tis not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you: 
If she do chide, ’tis not to have you gone;
* * * * *
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For “Get you gone,” she doth not mean “Away!”

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1.

          She never told her love,

But let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek:  she pin’d in thought,
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She saw, like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.

Twelfth Night, A. 2, S. 4.

               She shall be

A pattern to all ... living with her.... 
Holy and heavenly thoughts shall still counsel her;
She shall be lov’d and fear’d.  Her own shall bless her....
...  Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour....
...  Yet a virgin,
A most unspotted lily shall she pass
To the ground, and all shall mourn her.

Henry VIII., A. 5, S. 4.

JOHN MILTON.

Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.

Paradise Lost, Book 8.

              When I approach
    Her loveliness, so absolute she seems
    And in herself complete, so well to know
    Her own, that what she wills to do or say
    Seems wisest, virtuest, discreetest, best.

Paradise Lost, Book 8.

Nothing lovelier can be found
In woman than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote.

Paradise Lost, Book 9.

For contemplation he and valour form’d;
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.

Paradise Lost, Book 4.

              Among daughters of men ... 
    Many are in each region passing fair
    As the noon sky; more like to goddesses
    Than mortal creatures; graceful and discreet;
    ...  Persuasive ... 
    Such objects have the power to soften and tame
    Severest temper.

Paradise Regained, Book 2.

                Ladies, whose bright eyes
    Rain influence.

      L’Allegro.