GLOUCESTER: “_What colour is my gown of?_” SIMPCOX: “_Black, forsooth: coal black as jet._” KING: “_Why then, thou know’st what colour jet is of?_” SUFFOLK: “_And yet, I think, jet did he never see._” (Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Sc. 1.) TITUS: “_Provide two proper palfreys, black as jet, To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away._” (Titus Andronicus, Act V, Sc. 2.) SALARINO: “_There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory._” (Merchant of Venice, Act III, Sc. 1.) LAPIS LAZULI EVANS: “_What is ‘lapis,’ William?_” WILLIAM: “_A stone._” EVANS: “_And what is a ‘stone,’ William?_” WILLIAM: “_A pebble._” EVANS: “_No, it is ‘lapis’: I pray you, remember in your prain._” WILLIAM: “_Lapis._” EVANS: “_That is a good William._” (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Sc. 1.) MARBLE CARD. WOLSEY: “_When I am forgotten, as I shall be: And sleep in dull, cold marble._” (Henry VIII, Act III, Sc. 2.) KING HENRY: “_Her tears will pierce into a marble heart._” (Henry VI, Part 3, Act III, Sc. 2.) GLOSTER: “_He plies her hard: and much rain wears the marble._” (Henry VI, Part 3, Act III, Sc. 2.) SICILIUS: “_Peep through thy marble mansion._” SICILIUS: “_The marble pavement closes._” (Cymbeline, Act V, Sc. 4.) LAVINIA: “_The milk from her did turn to marble._” (Titus Andronicus, Act II, Sc. 3.) OTHELLO: “_Now by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words._” (Othello, Act III, Sc. 3.) HAMLET: “_O, answer me! why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn’d, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again._” (Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 4.) DUKE: “_And he, a marble to her tears, is washed with them, but relents not._” (Measure for Measure, Act III, Sc. 1.) MARIANA: “_Let me in safety raise me from my knees: Or else forever be confixed here, A marble monument!_” (Measure for Measure, Act V, Sc. 1.) MACBETH: “_I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble._” (Macbeth, Act III, Sc. 4.) 3RD GENTLEMAN: “_Who was most marble there, changed colour._” (The Winter’s Tale, Act V, Sc. 2.) ANDRIANA: “_If voluble and sharp discourse be marred, Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard._” (Comedy of Errors, Act II, Sc. 1.)