THE COURTEZAN: “_Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner, Or for my diamond, the chain you promised._” (Act IV, Sc. 3.) THE COURTEZAN: “_Sir, I must have that diamond from you._” (Act V, Sc. 1.) In Act 3, Scene 3, in “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Falstaff says to Mistress Ford: “_I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond._” The Princess in “Love’s Labours Lost,” Act 5, Scene 2, speaks of a “_Lady walled about with diamonds._” In “Timon of Athens,” Act 3, Scene 6, the Fourth Lord says: “_One day he gives us diamonds, next dry stones._” In “The Merchant of Venice,” Act 3, Scene 1, Shylock exclaims, “_A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort._” In “Macbeth,” Act 2, Scene 1, Banquo presents the King’s diamond with the words: “_This diamond he greets your wife withal._” In “King Lear,” Act 4, Scene 3, the gentleman tells Kent: “_You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like a better way: those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip, seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes: which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped._” EMERALD Emerald is mentioned but once—in Act 5, Scene 5, of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” when Mistress Quickly says: “_And ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense,’ write In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white: Like sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery Buckled below fair knighthood’s bending knee._” FLINT