Careful Words

precise (adv.)

precise (adj.)

A winning wave, deserving note,

In the tempestuous petticoat;

A careless shoe-string, in whose tie

I see a wild civility,—

Do more bewitch me than when art

Is too precise in every part.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): Delight in Disorder.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.