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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.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
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.]
Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
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.
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.
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.
