And thow that flour of virgines art alle…
Thou confort of us wrecches, do me endite
Thy maydens deeth, that wan thurgh hire merite
The eterneel lyf and of the feend victorie.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Second Nun’s Prologue. In her invocation to the Virgin Mary, the Second Nun asks the Mother of God to help her write the story of Saint Cecilia. Cecilia was the maiden who won through her merit eternal life and victory over the devil, she says.