10. Nor in truth is any one excluded from the
devotion of widowhood, if after entering upon a second marriage, which
the precepts of the Apostle certainly do not condemn as
though the fruit of chastity were lost, if she
be again loosed from her husband. She will have, indeed, the
merit of her chastity, even if it be tardy, but she will be more
approved who has tried a second marriage, for the desire of chastity is
conspicuous in her, for the other old age or shame seems to have put an
end to marrying.