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 1 [Title]    |                   A DISCOURSE ON VIRGINITY.~[p. 170.] ~
 2 [Title](1) |      piece, but the Discourse on Virginity is not in regular metre.
 3 VII        |       How light are thy wings, O Virginity, that soar 4 and go up to
 4 XVII       |         go forth and declare her virginity, because the judges could
 5 XVII       |    secret things ; the tokens of virginity on the veil were declaring
 6 XVII       |            to thy secret Lord in virginity 8 show the secret things
 7 [Title](8) |           2 ' to thy Lord in thy virginity,' Aa, ~
 8 XVII       |        do not10 in veils thy own virginity shew to thy Bridegroom. ~
 9 [Title](10)|         4 'and do not' (conj.)] 'virginity,' Palimpsest (sic), 'virginity
10 [Title](10)|   virginity,' Palimpsest (sic), 'virginity and do not,' Aa. Apparently
11 XVIII      |        his ; in that he saw that virginity was rebellious in her nest,
12 XIX        |       ruined him, who had ruined virginity, and he who had spotted
13 XX         |            For thine own self, O virginity, who is there to persuade,
14 XXI        |         whom was set the seal of virginity. But if virginity kept alive
15 XXI        |        seal of virginity. But if virginity kept alive heathen women,
16 XXII       |        lying in wait for thee, O Virginity ! Thou didst enter the chamber;
17 XXIII      |           The hunters of thee, O Virginity, that have hunted thee are
18 XXIV       |                          XXIV. O Virginity, inexperienced Dove, cunning
19 XXV        |         He whose desire deceived virginity and polluted it, wrath deceived
20 XXVI       |       she had lost her [P. 179.] virginity. She got a tunic instead
21 XXVI       |      instead of that tunic ; her virginity that she had lost was not
22 XXVI       |       heal ; but the loss of her virginity for One alone is easy to
23 XXVI       |         alone is easy to heal. O Virginity, whose loss is easy for
24 XXVII      |        be heralds for the secret virginity that was ruined. Ah, the
25 XXVIII     |       stones and beryls, but the virginity alone surpassed them all ;
26 XXVIII     |          the tokens of [P. 180.] virginity. The thief knows thy value,
27 XXVIII     |         thief knows thy value, O Virginity, but thou didst not perceive
28 XXXII      |       And she that here destroys virginity, apprehension becomes her
29 XXXIII     |       with thine eyes the vow of virginity that thy mouth has vowed.
30 XXXIV      |         within after the type of virginity in peace. ~
31 XXXV       |           thy perfection and thy virginity are walls that keep and
32 XXXVII     |      leave off, O Body, from the virginity that [P. 183.] by grace
33 XXXVIII    |         that is the adversary of Virginity. Joseph persecuted her from
34 XXXIX      |      that men by it should steal virginity ? The girls despoiled the
35 LV         | everything. ~END OF DISCOURSE ON VIRGINITY. ~ ~