honesty (n.) Old form(s): Honestie
virtue, chastity
3H6 III.ii.72[Lady Grey to Edward] mine honesty shall be my dower
AW I.iii.90[Clown to Countess] Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt
AW III.v.13[Mariana to Diana] no legacy is so rich as honesty
AW III.v.61[Helena to Diana, of herself] all her deserving / Is a reserved honesty
AW IV.iv.28.2[Diana to Helena] Let death and honesty / Go with your impositions
AYL III.iii.27[Touchstone to Audrey] honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar
AYL III.iii.32[Touchstone to Audrey] to cast away honesty upon a foul slut were to put good meat into an unclean dish
AYL IV.i.77[Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] I should think my honesty ranker than my wit
AYL V.iv.58[Touchstone to Duke Senior] Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house
H8 IV.ii.145[Katherine to Capuchius, of her serving-women] will deserve ... / For honesty and decent carriage, / A right good husband
MW I.iii.46[Pistol to Nym, of Falstaff and Mistress Ford] He hath ... translated her will - out of honesty into English
MW II.i.80[Mistress Page to Mistress Ford, of Falstaff's letters] It makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own honesty
MW II.ii.226[Ford as Brook to Falstaff] lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife
TC I.ii.262[Cressida to Pandarus, of her defences] upon my secrecy to defend mine honesty
Tit II.iii.135[Chiron to Lavinia] now perforce we will enjoy / That nice-preserved honesty of yours
TNK V.ii.19.1[Gaoler to Doctor] first, by your leave, / I'th' way of honesty
TNK V.ii.20[Doctor to Gaoler] Ne'er cast your child away for honesty [i.e. don't let a concern for chastity be the ruin of her]
TNK V.ii.26[Doctor to Wooer, of the Gaoler's Daughter] Her honesty? / An we should give her physic till we find that [i.e. we would be wasting our time]
TNK V.ii.69[Gaoler's Daughter to Wooer] Yours to command i'th' way of honesty
WT I.ii.288[Leontes to Camillo] Is whispering nothing? ... Stopping the career / Of laughter with a sigh? - a note infallible / Of breaking honesty
WT II.i.155[Antigonus to Leontes, of Hermione's supposed adultery] If it be so, / We need no grave to bury honesty
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