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CHASTITY. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
— Chastity
CHASTITY. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
As pure as a pearl,And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
My chastity's the jewel of our house,Bequeathed down from many ancestors.
The very ice of chastity is in them.
Chaste as the icicleAnd hangs on Dian's temple.
As chaste as unsunn'd snow.
Even from the body's purity, the mindReceives a secret sympathetic aid.
There's a woman like a dew-drop,She's so purer than the purest.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
If she seem not chaste to me.What care I how chaste she be?
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
