...it, my dear sister; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. 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...

...it, my dear sister, And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. 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...

...heedful: bearing thy heart, which I will keep so c. as tender nurse her babe, Sonn. 22, 11. the — iesi maid is prodigal enough, if she unmask her beauty to the moon, Hml. I, 3, 36. Charybdls, the vortex in the straits of Sicilia: when I shun Scylla, your father, I...

...sexuality from which Polonius would protect her - not to mention her brother, who is convinced that 'The chariest maid is prodigal enough | If she unmask her beauty to the moon' (I.3.36-7). Characteristically, when Ophelia falls into the stream by accident, she makes no attempt...

...right to interpret her; it is hauntingly beautiful and rather unsuited to the brother who speaks it: The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon and so forth; the whole suggestion is that she must hold off from Hamlet, as part of her bid for grandeur,...

...to amuse, irritate or infuriate the chastest of sisters. But he seems to allow for private nudity: The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon. All young things are in danger, from soiling and corruption, Laertes says, and returns to his foreboding:...

...it, my dear sister, And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon.14 Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. The canker galls the infants of the spring Too...

...purity is always already defiled, no matter how innocent she may be. In Hamlet Laertes tells Ophelia, "The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she unmask her beauty to the moon" (1.3.36-37). Laertes is a voice of convention in the play, and these lines, according to the Arden...

...'unmasked his power' ( i600) Shakespeare is found combining a metaphorical 'unmask' and an abstract noun in The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon (Hamlet, i. 3. 36-7) but not, as it happens, anywhere else in his dramatic work. Apparently he was...

...Elsinore's rolling gardens and lakes and sheer vastness. But now he's to get irritated. LAERTES (continuing) The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon. Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. In the background we see HAMLET, a lone black figure,...