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A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 1
PAROLLES
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature
to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational
increase and there was never virgin got till
virginity was first lost. That you were made of is
metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost
may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is
ever lost: ’tis too cold a companion; away with ‘t!
’tis against the rule of nature. To speak on the
part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers;
which is most infallible disobedience. He that
hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself
and should be buried in highways out of all
sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress
against nature. Virginity breeds mites,
much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very
paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.
Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of
self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the
canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose
by’t: out with ‘t! within ten year it will make
itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the
principal itself not much the worse: away with ‘t!
‘Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with ‘t
while ’tis vendible; answer the time of request.
Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just
like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not
now. Your date is better in your pie and your
porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,
your old virginity, is like one of our French
withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,
’tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;
marry, yet ’tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?
Read the play here: Folgers|All’s Well That Ends Well In Plain And Simple English
Watch the movie: 1981(Robert Lindsay)|2012 (Globe On Screen)
