pale-visag'd

Updated: May 3, 2025

Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child's children, cry against you 'Woe! The patriotism of the women is described by the Bastard in King John: Your own ladies and pale-visag'd maids Like Amazons come tripping after drums: Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change, Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts To fierce and bloody inclination.

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - England and the War