A Letter to a virtuous lady to disswade her from her resolution of being a nun This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A48210 of text R36363 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A48210 Wing L1697 ESTC R36363 ocm 15668112

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 eng eebo A letter to a virtuous lady, to disswade her from her resolution of being a nun. This may be printed, February the 19th, 1685. R.P. n/a 1686 3 414 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER To a VIRTUOUS LADY , To Disswade her from her Resolution of being A NUN .

This may he Printed ,

February the 19th , 1685. R. P.
REcall this Resolution , or you 'l prove A Renegade to Nature , and to Love : He that did form all Creatures for Increasing , Made Fruitful Amity the first great Blessing , Why were you made a Woman ? Why were we ( By different Sex ) put in Capacity Of getting Children ? You cross Gods Decree ; You will live single , does not every thing Contribute to the Store-House of the Spring : Beasts , Fish , Fowls , Grain ; one Ear of Corn will yield , ( With Husbandry ) enough to fill a Field : Were every thing Fruitless ( as you would be ) You 'd Eat the Walls down of your Nunnery . But your Transgression unto Love is such , As no Man's Pen can aggravate too much ; Were those Blew Veins , Red Lips , White Hands , Black Ey's , Made only for a Vestal Sacrifice ? But you reply , 'T is to prevent those Crimes , And hot Allurements , which pollute the Times : Madam , are you so weak , or Sin so stout , That nothing but Stone-Walls can keep it out ? Ulisses when he fear'd to be Imbrac'd By Syrens , bound himself to the Ships Mast ; Because he found his Soul so much inclin'd Unto Temptation , did his Body bind ; And is it so with you ? must you needs run This Tempting Race , unless y' have Fetters on ? Are Maids so frail , can Virgins find no trick For Chastity , but to be Buried Quick ? And yet when all this streight preventions wrought , Not all your Walls , nor Bars , can keep out Thought : In my conceipt those Hearts have fimest Stations , That can be Chast in spight of all Temptations . Chast Wedlock was at first design'd , that we Might not Abuse , but keep our Chastity . You may do so , and yet not Live alone , That Woman's Chast enough that knows but one : Stop your Resolve then e're it farther runs , For Virtuous Wives are better than some Nuns . FINIS .

LONDON , Printed for John Harris , 1686.