SAFFRON

CERES

Who, with thy SAFFRON wings

upon my flowers,

Diffusest honeydrops, refreshing showers.

—Tempest [Act IV, sc. 1]

ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS

Did this companion

with the SAFFRON face

Revel and feast it at my house to day?

—Comedy of Errors [Act IV, sc. 4]

SHEPHERD’S SON/CLOWN

I must have SAFFRON

to colour the Warden pies.

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 3]

LAFEU

No, no, no, your son was misled

with a snipt-taffeta fellow there,

whose villanous SAFFRON would

have made all the unbaked and doughy

youth of a nation in his colour.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act IV, sc. 5]