Are you meditating on virginity?
It's not politic in the commonwealth of nature
to
preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational
increase and there was never virgin got till
virginity was first lost.
That you were made of is
metal to make virgins. Virginity by being
once lost
may be ten times found; by being ever kept,
it is
ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away
with it!
'tis against the
rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,
is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible
disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:
virginity murders itself and should be buried
in
highways out of all sanctified limit, as a
desperate
offendress against nature. Virginity breeds
mites,
much like a cheese; consumes itself to the
very
paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.
Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle,
made of
self-love, which is the most inhibited sin
in the
canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but
loose
by it: out with it. within ten year it will
make
itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and
the
principal itself not much the worse: away
with it.
