I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely 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 it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.
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