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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency so read more
Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't
Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow.
There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia read more
When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the
very ice of chastity is in them.
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the
very ice of chastity is in them.
