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Is there any thing we can term [[underline]] Chastity [[/underline]] but an innate invariable sense of purity -- Lucretia was no instance of virtue, -- did she love Tarquin? did you sympathising soul forerun as well as share the pangs which her denial must occasion? That is the test, the only test of chastity; painful at best is the pre-eminence. -- her very nature was inaccessible to a pleasure that her principles could not justify -- that fond, that faithful heart flew to yr bosom as its [[underline]] natural [[/underline]] home by teaching his daughter to distrust herself; he has saved her the chance to ever incurring her own reproaches
