The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
Ver. 13. The children of thine elect] Who probably sojourned with St John for education's sake. The lady might say to the apostle, as he in Virgil did to Aeneas,
" - sub te tolerare magistro
Militiam-tua cernere facta
Assuescant, primis et te mirentur ab annis. "