Jealous of hischast Psyche, raging he Quarrels with<75.
Tell me, O self-reviving Sun, In thy perigrination Hast thou beheld a pair Twist their soft beams like these in their chast air?
Who would delight in his chast eyes to see Dormise to strike at lights of poesie?
By which is intended, that it proceeded of a cold and chast complexion not easily allured to loue.
Fierce Achilles, wise Nestor, wilie Vlysses, Diana the chast and thou louely Venus: With thy blind boy that almost neuer misses, But hits our hartes when he levels at vs.
I hold my peace and will not say for shame, The much vntruth of that vnciuill dame: For if I should her coullours kindly blaze, It would so make the chast eares amaze, &c.
Those chast desires, that noble minde of yours, And that chiefe part whence all your honor springs, A grace to entertaine the greatest kings.
I heare Apollo's teame, The carman 'gins to whistle; Chast Diana bends her bowe, The boare begins to bristle.
I spred my plumes, as wantons doe, Some sweet and secret friende to wooe, Because chast love I did not finde Agreeing to my wanton minde.
For tis Poetry that like a chast unspotted Virgin, shews men the way, and the means to live happily, who afterward are deprav'd by the immodest precepts of vitiated and impudent Philosophy.
Than any one can tell; So Fair she was, so Chast she was, That no one knew it well!
Then come, Chast Love, choyse part of womankind Infuse chast thoughts into my loving mind.
Chast Love, let mee embrace thee in mine armes Without the thought of lust.
Be thou as chast as Ice, as pure as Snow, thou shalt not escape Calumny.
Then weight what losse your Honour may sustaine, If with too credent eare you list his Songs; Or lose your Heart; or your chast Treasure open To his vnmastred importunity.
It is accounted religion to be just and sober and chast and true and to be endowed with other vertues, as we do account it.
Chast himself, and requires his Attendants to be so.
Although it cannot be denied, but that the chastlife is most perfecte, notwithstanding, that perfection in nothing doth diminishe the other.
So was this virgin borne, so was she bred, So was she trayned vp from time to time, 8 In allchast vertue, and true bounti-hed Till to her dew perfection she was ripened.
My Lady and my loue is +cruelly+ pend 2 In dolefull darkenesse from the vew of day, Whilest deadly torments do her chast brest rend, 4 And the sharpe steele doth riue her hart in tway, All for she Scudamore will not denay.
I do beleive thee chast As the straight palme; as absolute from spots As the immaculate Ermine, who does choose, When he is hunted by the frozen Russe, To meete the toyle ere he defile the white Of his rich skin.
Weomen were mermaides sailing with the wind, The greatest miracle was fish behind: But men were all kept chast against their wish, And could comitt but the cold sin of fish.
Fortune help me, And all you Stars that govern chastdesires Shine fair, and lovely.
No, pitty thee; an eie-sore tochast Nymphes, yet still importunate.
Live, our chast loue, the holy mirth 75 Of Heau'n; the humble pride of Earth.
Bedds of chast loues, By your own showres seasonably dash't.
The queen of angels (and men chastas you) Was maiden-wife and maiden-mother too.
Hope's chast stealth harmes no more Ioye's maidenhead Then spousal rites preiudge the marriage bed.
Our lodgings hard and homely as our fare, That chast and cheap, as the few clothes we weare.
Therfore with his disgrace We guild the humble cheek of this chast place; Chorus.
O let me suck the wine So long of thischast Vine, Till drunk of the dear wounds, I be A lost thing to the world, as it to me.
My wombe's chast pride is gone, my heauen-borne boy; And where is joy?
As though I did dispise chast youth, This is not my intent of truth, I know they must liue single liues, Before th'are graced to be wiues.
And if before shee did adorne 45 Her parents' howse, the cheerefull morne Reioyceth now at this blest payre, To see a wife soe chast soe fayre.
Blest powres forbid thy tender life Should bleed vpon a barbarous knife: Or some base hand have power to raze Thy brest's chast cabinet, and vncase A soul kept there so sweet: O no, Wise Heaun will neuer haue it so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
