420. ~'Tis chastity~. "The passage which begins here and ends at line 475
is a concentrated expression of the moral of the whole Masque, and an
exposition also of a cardinal idea of Milton's philosophy" (Masson).
421. ~clad in complete steel~, _i.e._ completely armed; comp. _Hamlet_, i.
4. 52, where the phrase occurs. The accent is on the first syllable.
422. ~quivered nymph~. The chaste Diana of the Romans was armed with bow
and quiver; and Shakespeare makes virginity "Diana's livery." So in
Spenser, Belphoebe, the personification of Chastity, has "at her back a
bow and quiver gay." 'Quivered' is the Latin _pharetrata_.
423. ~trace~, traverse, track. ~unharboured~, affording no shelter.
Radically, a harbour is a lodging or shelter.
424. ~Infámous~, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism. The word now
implies disgrace or guilt. It is here accented on the penult.