Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.

Thus he concludes, and euery hardie knight / His ſample follow’d, and his brethren twaine, / The other Princes put on harneſſe light, / As footmen vſe.

In olden days, a glimpse of stockings / Was looked on as something shocking; / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes.

1685, Henry More, An Illustration of Those Two Abstruse Books in Holy Scripture, the Book of Daniel, and the Revelation of S. John