Celibacy and Clerical Culture
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• . . f o r the manner of thy begetting is so foule that the name, nay the lightest thought of it, d~leth the purest minde, so that our B. Sauiour refused none of our miseries, but on@ that," and the matter so horrid, so foule, that all other dung is pleasant and gratefull in respect of it; nay we dare not in discourse glue it a name, for our owne shame & others of fence. . . I cannot imagine any prison so clarke, so straight, so loathsome, as the wombe of a woman, in Which the child is inclosed, & enwrapped in most foule, bloudy and matterous skinnes or membranes, for no lesse, then nine whole moneths," so straighned and pressed, that neither hand nor foot can he stirre or moue: his food, the filthy menstrous bloud of his mother, a thing so nasa, and poisonous, as that what soever it toucheth, it infecteth, like the plague or lep~ . . . 1
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