Says Dumain in “Love’s Labours Lost” (Act 4, Scene 3):
“Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted”
and Biron—
“An amber-coloured raven was well noted.”
CARBUNCLE
Dromio of Syracuse in Act 3, Scene 2, of the “Comedy of Errors,” speaks of
“Her nose all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires.”
Titus Lartius says of Marcius:
“Thou art lost, Marcius;
A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,