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.)

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