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A Satyre Against Mankind John Wilmot	Who Preaching peace, does practice continence; Whose pious life's a proof he does believe, Misterious truths, which no Man can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Confessio Amantis - Tales Of The Seven Deadly Sins, 1330-1408 A.D. - Prologus John Gower	With penance and with abstinence Of chastite the continence; Bot pleinly forto speke of that, I not how thilke body fat, Which thei with deynte metes kepe...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto the Eighth George Gordon Lord Byron	But on the whole their continence was great; So that some disappointment there ensu'd To those who had felt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lines on His Twenty-Third Birthday James Thomson - Bysshe Vanolis	Is virtue but a eunuch's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Moeurs Contemporaines Ezra Pound	VI...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Spontaneous Me Walt Whitman	walnuts; The continence of vegetables, birds, animals, The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto X. Coventry Patmore	To banquet goes with full delight; Nay, continence and gratitude So cleanse their lives from earth's alloy, They taste, in Nature's common...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canterbury Tales; the Wyves tale of Bathe Geoffrey Chaucer	Virginitee is greet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Testament of Cressida (excerpt) Robert Henryson	"For lufe of me thow keipt gude continence, Honest and chaist in conversatioun; Of all wemen protectour and defence Thou was,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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