Quotation by Shakespeare

I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted,
By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
And to be talked with in sincerity,
As with a saint.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lucio, in Measure for Measure, act 1, sc. 4, l. 34-7.

Addressing the novice Isabella at the gate of the nunnery; "enskied" means in heaven.
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