Beata

13 clues
Blessed
Blessed woman
___ quick retreat
--- hasty retreat
___ retreat (flee)
___ retreat (decamp)
___ Drum" (REM song)
___ retreat (fall back)
Rossetti's "___ Beatrix
___ retreat (hightail it)
Blessed Roman Catholic woman
___ retreat (retire in haste)
A staff is quickly found to ___ dog": Shak.