12. But it is common with women to make public
wailing, as though they feared that their misery might not be
known. They affect soiled clothing, as though the feeling of
sorrow consisted therein; they moisten their unkempt hair with filth;
and
lastly, which is done
habitually in many places, with their clothing torn and their dress
rent in two, they prostitute their modesty in nakedness, as if they
were ready to sacrifice that modesty because they have lost that which
was its reward. And so wanton eyes are excited, and lust after
those naked limbs, which were they not made bare they would not
desire. Would that those filthy garments covered the mind rather
than the bodily form. Lasciviousness of mind is often hidden
under sad clothing, and the unseemly rudeness of dress is used as a
covering to hide the secrets of wanton spirits.