The Castell of pleasure, sig. A v. 1518.
Chaucer has
“Of grasse and floures, Inde and Pers.”
Romaunt of the Rose,—Workes, fol. 109. ed. 1602.
(monstrously explained in Urry’s ed. “Indian and Persian”): and Lydgate,
“Nor stonys al by nature, as I fynde,
Be not saphires that shewethe colour ynde.”
The Chorle and the Bird,—MS. Harl. 116. fol. 150.
Sir John Mandeville says that the beak of the Phœnix “is coloured blew as ynde.” Voiage and Travaile, &c., p. 58. ed. 1725.
Page 25. v. 20. Geyne] i. e. Against.