Note 119 — BOOK II.
William Julius Mickle translation
On it, the picture of that shape he placed, In which the Holy Spirit did alight, The picture of the dove, so white, so chaste, On the blest Virgin's head, so chaste, so white.
In these lines, the best of all Fanshaw's, the happy repetition "so chaste, so white," is a beauty which, though not contained in the original, the present translator was unwilling to lose.