What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
In "Midsummer Night's Dream," Lysander says to Helen:
To-morrow night, when Phœbe doth behold
Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass.
Among his recognitions of pearls as a sign of the luxury of wealth and high position, he makes a lord say, in the "Taming of the Shrew,"
Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp'd
Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.