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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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.

As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.

'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, 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.

If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?

Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose.

A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!

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.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime.

Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.

Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.