Careful Words

chaste (adj.)

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,

She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 600.

Chaste as the icicle

That's curdied by the frost from purest snow

And hangs on Dian's temple.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3.

As chaste as unsunn'd snow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Cymbeline. Act ii. Sc. 5.

If she seem not chaste to me,

What care I how chaste she be?

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): Poem.

If she seem not chaste to me,

What care I how chaste she be?

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): Poem.