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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

1512 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:1512
AUTHOR:William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION:The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
If she unmask her beauty to the moon:
Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes:
The canker galls the infants of the spring
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
ATTRIBUTION:Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.  [text]
WORKS:William Shakespeare Collection.