subs. (old).—Virginity, the maidenhead.

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  1605.  SYLVESTER, Eden, 660.

          If voyd of Venus; sith unlike it is,
Such blesséd state the noble flowr should miss
Of VIRGIN-HEAD.

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  1607.  BEAUMONT, The Woman-Hater, i. 3.

          Laz.  Thither must I
To see my love’s face, the chaste VIRGIN-HEAD
Of a dear fish, yet pure and undeflower’d,
Not known of man.

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  1611.  DAVIES, The Scourge of Folly [Works, Ed. GROSART], i. 23.

        Two foes of honord name in Honors bed,
(The field) desirde (like virgins newly wiues)
To lose their valours lusty VIRGIN-HEAD.

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