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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Calumny

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (Hamlet to Ophelia.)

Virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Laertes.)