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O if you knew what shame to them befell,
That dance about with bobtaile Apes in hell,
You’d breake your oath, and for a world of gaine,
From Hymens pleasing sports no more abstaine.

— William Corkine The Second Booke of Ayres (1612)

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Your selfe, your Virgin girdle would divide,
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