Of light to save the venerably chaste:
But six old damsels, each of seventy years,
Were all deflowered by different grenadiers.
CXXXI.
But on the whole their continence was great;
So that some disappointment there ensued
To those who had felt the inconvenient state
Of "single blessedness," and thought it good
(Since it was not their fault, but only fate,
To bear these crosses) for each waning prude