What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
In answering this dilemma, Bado assesses the colours of fourteenth-century heraldry according to their status as primary, mediary or sub-mediary; their relative honour determined by the amount of elemental mixing gone into their creation. Thus Bado's opines that white is the highest colour in terms of honour, closely followed by black -- as opposed to Bartolo's contention that black was the lowest colour. (Red and blue are superior to green (as sub-mediary) in all fourteenth-century accounts of armorial colour I have seen)
[…] the Otter then that keepes
In the wild Riuers, in their Bancks and Sleeps,
And ſeeds on Fish, which vnder water ſtill,
He with his keld ſeet, and keene teeth doth kill;
The other two into the Arke doth follow,
Though his ill ſhape doth cauſe him but to wallow […]
'One of the little Indian girls whose name is Polly has just come in to ask, Miss D., what is a wog? One white boy called me a polliwog, and I thought a wog must be something bad. '
