Sexual desire in Troilus and Cressida/Book of the Duchess

ty compared to the Lady White:
             Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;
             Handlest in thy discourse – O that her hand,
             In whose comparison all whites are ink
             Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
             The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense
             Hard as the palm of ploughman! (I.i.53)
             The Lady White seems unaware that she acquires power over the Black Knight by her beauty and demeanour, although the dreamer does not have the opportunity to contrast the Lady's viewpoint.
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