5 Words to use with virgo
before the senators; and Aemilia, virgo innocens, that ran over hot irons, as Emma, Edward the Confessor's mother did, the king himself being a spectator, with the like.
[5806] "Ut flos in septis secretus nascitur hortis, Ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro, Quam mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber, &c. Sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum chara suis, sed Cum Castum amisit," &c. Virginity is a fine picture, as [5807]Bonaventure calls it, a blessed thing in itself, and if you will believe a Papist, meritorious.
It may appear trifling to remark, that he has made the letter o, in the word virgo, long and short in the same line: "Virgo, virgo parit."
Jam Virgo thalamum subibit unde ne virgo redeat, marite cura.
The following passage in the Legend of St. Catherine must also have been present to his mind: "Et cum dolerent, quod sine baptismo decederent, virgo respondit: