The whitest virtue strikes.

“Measure for Measure,” iii, 2.

Hamlet. Be thou chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

“Hamlet,” iii, 4.

Boabdils.

Bassanio. How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false

As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins

The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars:

Who, inward search’d, have livers white as milk!

“Merchant of Venice,” iii, 2.