For a lot of Protestants in the early seventeenth century, the word chastitycould also be used to refer to the state of what could be called married chastity: - married chastity was a type of bodily purity that could be extended -- -- or a spiritual purity as well -- that could be extended even into marriage.

对早期17世纪的新教徒来说，贞节这个词也可以用来,表示婚姻贞节：,婚姻贞节是一种可以延伸的身体上的纯洁-,同样也是一种精神的纯洁-,那种纯洁甚至可以延伸至结婚以后。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选