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...of sin": when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...quite lose The divine property of her first being. [463-69] One could hardly want a more specific rejection of carnal relations. Kerrigan believes that...

...pamphlets, carnal rites make worshipers irredeemably carnal. When the Lady's elder brother warns that lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being (lines 466-9) what he describes as happening to the individual who succumbs to Comus is exactly what...

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...l3lut when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk. But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose. The divine property of her first being, face our deaths...

...process by which sin works morally and materially at once. The "lewd and lavish act of sin," he says, Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies, and imbrutes, till she quite loose The divine property of her first being. (lines 464 68)...

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...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton,—who, in his Comus, thus sings:— When lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. —And how graphic, yet how revolting, the description of his own character, before his conversion,...