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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: should commend itself at once to your knowledge of what has been and
to your feeling of what should be. You cannot think that the
buckling on of the knight's armour by his lady's hand was a mere
caprice of romantic fashion. It is the type of an eternal truth--
that the soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a
woman's hand has braced it; and it is only when she braces it
loosely that the honour of manhood fails. Know you not those lovely
lines--I would they were learned by all youthful ladies of England:-
"Ah, wasteful woman!--she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing he cannot choose but pay -
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