saffron
“would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his
colour—Whose villanous,”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 5.
2.
In this passage there seems to be, as Warburton observes, an allusion both to the
fashionable and fantastic custom of wearing yellow, and to that of colouring paste with
saffron (
“I must have saffron to colour the warden pies,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3. 43
).
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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