Careful Words

suit (n.)

suit (v.)

suit (adj.)

Lightly from fair to fair he flew,

And loved to plead, lament, and sue;

Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain,

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Marmion. Canto v. Stanza 9.

  Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I 'll have a suit of sables.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.