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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
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.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
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.
