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take a fancy to possess over her companions the glory of this chaste
love?  I may well say chaste;

                    〃Nam si quando ad praelia ventum est;
               Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis;
               Incassum furit:〃

     '〃For when they sometimes engage in love's battle;
     his sterile ardour lights up but as the flame of a straw。〃
     Virgil; Georg。; iii。  98。'

the vices that are stifled in the thought are not the worst。

To conclude this notable commentary; which has escaped from me in a
torrent of babble; a torrent sometimes impetuous and hurtful;

              〃Ut missum sponsi furtivo munere malum
               Procurrit casto virginis a gremio;
               Quod miserae oblitae molli sub veste locatuat;
               Dum adventu matris prosilit; excutitur;
               Atque illud prono praeceps agitur decursu
               Huic manat tristi conscius ore rubor。〃

     '〃As when an apple; sent by a lover secretly to his mistress; falls
     from the chaste virgin's bosom; where she had quite forgotten it;
     when; starting at her mother's coming in; it is shaken out and rolls
     over the floor before her eyes; a conscious blush covers her face。〃
     Catullus; lxv。 19。'

I say that males and females are cast in the same mould; and that;
education and usage excepted; the difference is not great。  Plato
indifferently invites both the one and the other to the society of all
studies; exercises; and vocations; both military and civil; in his
Commonwealth; and the philosopher Antisthenes rejected all distinction
betwixt their virtue and ours。  It is much more easy to accuse one sex
than to excuse the other; 'tis according to the saying;

               〃Le fourgon se moque de la paele。〃
                  '〃The Pot and the Kettle。〃'










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