duteous

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That I might clasp him dead and wait my lord In whatsoever world holds faithful wives— Duteous, attending till his hour should come.

From The Light of Asia by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

Yet when by the Imperial Sentence doom’d, The Royal Hand the Princely Youth unplum’d, He his hard Fate without a Murmur took, And stood with that Calm, Duteous, Humble look.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore