"All the cost bestowed did not so much enrich, nor all the fine decking so much beautify, nor all the dainty devices so much delight, as the fairness of Parthenia, the pearl of all the maids of Mantinea, who, as she went to the temple to be married, her eyes themselves seemed a temple wherein love and beauty were married."
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Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593; 1621), bk. 1
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