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 Secure without all doubt, or controverie: Yet where an equall poie of hope, and feare Does arbitrate th'event, my nature is That I incline to hope, rather than feare And gladly banih quint uspicion. My iter is not o defencelee left As you imagine, he has a hidden trength Which you remember not.
 * 2. Bro. What hidden trength

Vnlee the trength of heav'n, if meane that?
 * Eld. Bro. I meane that too, but yet a hidden trength

Which if heav'n gave it, may be term'd her owne: 'Tis chatitie, my brother, chatitie: She that has that, is clad in compleat teele, And like a quiver'd nymph with arrowes keene May trace huge forrets, and unharbour'd heaths Infamous hills, and andie perillous wilds Where through the acred rays of chatitie No avage fierce, bandite, or mountaneete Will dare to oyle her virgin puritie Yea there, where very deolation dwells By grots, and caverns hag'd with horrid hades She may pae on with unblench't majetie Be it not done in pride, or in preumption. Some ay no evill thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake or moorih fen Blew meagre hag, or tubborne unlayd ghot That breaks his magicke chaines at curfeu time No goblin, or wart Faërie of the mine Has hurtfull power ore true virginity. Doe yee beleeve me yet, or hall I call Antiquity from the old chools of Greece To