Book III, 2: On ZACHARIAS and the blessed Virgin

His tongue requir'd a Signe, which might afford
A cleerer Evidence, then the Angels word;
And had it too: Vntill those things shall come
To passe, his faithlesse lips are stricken dumb:
Our blessed Virgin, at her Salutation,
Seemd ev'n as faithles, on the selfe same fashion
Her lips reply'd: And how can these things be?
Hard Iustice! why he punisht, and not she?
The Reason's easie to be riddeld out;
Hers was the voyce of Wonder; His, of doubt.