Your foly ys to grett
The kynges colours to threte;”[34]
from which we may infer that he wore, as laureat, a dress of white and green, or, perhaps, a white dress with a wreath of laurel. It was most probably on some part of the same habit that the word Calliope was embroidered in letters of silk and gold:
“Calliope,
As ye may se,
Regent is she
Of poetes al,
Whiche gaue to me
The high degre