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Rh Therefore to them I leaue you, Which gladly wil receiue you: You must go choose some other mate, According to your own estate. For I do meane to liue in rest, Go seek you, and leek you an other guest, And choose him, and vse him, as you like best.

Iudge and finde, how God doth minde, to furnish, to furnish his heauenly throne aboue, With virgins pure, this am I sure, without misse, without misse: with other Saints he doth loue: It is allowed as you may reade, And eke auowed by Paul indeede, Virginitie is accepted, a thing high in Gods sight: Though marriage is selected, a thing to be most right: yet must I praise Virginitie, For I would faine a Virgin be.

You Virgins pure, your selues assure, and credite, and credite: great ioy you shall possesse, Which I (God knows) cannot disclose, nor spreade it, nor spreade it, ne yet by pen expresse. Nor halfe the ioies that you shall finde, I can not iudge for you assignde: When hence your ghost shall yeelded be, into the throne of blisse: In chaste and pure Virginitie, for thought or deed ywisse: Wher you shal raign, with God on hie For euermore eternally.