Now the Seven Deadly Virtues are: Humility, Charity, Meekness,
Temperance, Brotherly Love, Diligence, Chastity. And the Seven Deadly
Arts are: Poetry, Music, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Drama,
Dancing.
This Parable, with its notations and evocations of naked nerves and
soul-states, is inscribed in all gratitude to the charming morganatic
ladies, les belles impures, who make pleasanter this vale of tears for
virile men. What shall it profit a woman if she saves her soul, but
loseth love?
"La pudeur? belle vertu! qu'on attache sur soi avec des épingles."