Begin to part their fringes of bright gold:

The diamonds of a most praised water

Do appear, to make the world twice rich.”

The diamond is mentioned three times in King Henry VI:

“To me he seems like diamond to glass.”

Pericles, Act II, Sc. 3.

Suffolk: “So farewell Reignier: set this diamond safe

In golden palaces, as it becomes.”

(Part 1, Act V, Sc. 8.)

The Queen: “I took a costly jewel from my neck,