It was a custom among the maids of Cios to assemble together in the
public temples, and to pass the day together in good fellowship; and
there their sweethearts had the felicity to behold how prettily they
sported and danced about. In the evening this company went to the house
of every particular maid in her turn, and waited upon each other’s
parents and brethren very officiously, even to the washing of their
feet. It oftentimes so fell out that many young men fell in love with
one maid; but they carried it so decently and civilly that, when the
maid was espoused to one, the rest presently gave off courting of her.
The effect of this good order among the women was that no mention was
made of any adultery or fornication among them for the space of seven
hundred years.