I'll seek no other ordinary then, / But be his daily guest without invitement; […]

I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.

They would whip me with their fine wits.

Claude Villette, who wrote in a still earlier time, speaks of grey or ash-coloured, violet, yellow, and dove-coloured (colombin) as secondary colours to the four chief colours in use in the Gallacan Church.