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

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

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.

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.]

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with read more

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.