EBONY

KING FERDINAND

By heaven, thy love is black as EBONY.

BIRON

Is EBONY like her? O wood divine!

A wife of such wood were felicity.

—Love’s Labour’s Lost [Act IV, sc. 3]

FESTE/CLOWN

The clearstores towards the south north

are as lustrous as EBONY.

—Twelfth Night [Act IV, sc. 2]

PISTOL

Rouse up revenge from EBON den with fell

Alecto’s snake . . .

—Henry IV, Pt. 2 [Act V, sc. 5]

KING FERDINAND

The EBON-COLOURED ink.

—Love’ Labour’s Lost [Act I, sc. 1]

Love’s golden arrow at him should have fled,

And not Death’s EBON dart, to strike dead.

—Venus and Adonis