A marvelous medicine to cure a great pain, if a maiden-head be lost to get it again.

Two women with bird cages sitting in a garden; representing virginity and its loss. Colour process print by Charaire after De Brea after N. Lavreince.

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A marvelous medicine to cure a great pain, if a maiden-head be lost to get it again.

Two women with bird cages sitting in a garden; representing virginity and its loss. Colour process print by Charaire after De Brea after N. Lavreince.

A marvelous medicine to cure a great pain, if a maiden-head be lost to get it again.