maides

Updated: May 16, 2025

Your white is Death, your milke white inocence, your black mourning, your orange spitefull, your flesh colour lascivious, your maides blush envied, your red is defiance, your gold is avaritious, your straw plenty, your greene hope, your sea greene inconstant, your violet religious, your willow forsaken. Sis. La. Tis pitty but there should be some bookes for our instruction in this art. De.

Various - A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2