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99 | before this hour shall be very old, | ||||||
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100 | 'when from the pulpit it shall be forbidden | ||||||
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102 | to flaunt their nipples with their breasts. | ||||||
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103 | 'What barbarous women, what Saracens, | ||||||
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105 | or other rules, to walk about in proper dress? | ||||||
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107 | what the swift heavens are preparing, even now | ||||||
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