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| Womanhood Self-Evident, and Not to Be Concealed by Just Leaving the Head Bare. PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP
Chapter
XII.—Womanhood Self-Evident, and Not to Be Concealed by Just
Leaving the Head Bare.
Recognise the woman, ay, recognise the
wedded woman, by the testimonies both of body
and of spirit, which she
experiences both in conscience and in flesh. These are the
earlier tablets of natural espousals and nuptials. Impose
a veil externally upon her who has (already) a covering
internally. Let her whose lower parts are not bare have her upper
likewise covered. Would you know what is the authority which age
carries? Set before yourself each (of these two); one
prematurely315
315 Oehler’s
“immutare” appears certainly to be a misprint
for “immature.” | compressed in
woman’s garb, and one who, though advanced in maturity,
persists in virginity with its appropriate garb: the
former will more easily be denied to be a woman than the latter
believed a virgin. Such is, then, the honesty of age, that
there is no overpowering it even by garb. What of the fact that
these (virgins) of ours confess their change of age even
by their garb; and, as soon as they have understood themselves
to be women, withdraw themselves from virgins, laying
aside (beginning with their head itself) their former selves:
dye316
316 Vertunt: or
perhaps “change the style of.” But comp. (with
Oehler) de Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. vi. | their hair; and fasten their hair with more
wanton pin; professing manifest womanhood with their hair parted
from the front. The next thing is, they consult the looking-glass
to aid their beauty, and thin down their over-exacting face with
washing, perhaps withal vamp it up with cosmetics, toss their mantle
about them with an air, fit tightly the multiform shoe, carry down more
ample appliances to the baths. Why should I pursue
particulars? But their manifest appliances alone317
317 i.e., without appealing
to any further proof. | exhibit their perfect womanhood:
yet they wish to play the virgin by the sole fact of leaving
their head bare—denying by one single feature what they profess
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