| 1H4 I.iii.108 | [Hotspur to King Henry] Never did bare and rotten policy / Colour her working with such deadly wounds |
| Ham II.ii.280 | [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to colour |
| Luc.92 | [of Tarquin's ill-intent] For that he coloured with his high estate / Hiding base sin in pleats of majesty |
| MM II.i.210 | [Escalus to Pompey] you are partly a bawd ... howsoever you colour it in being a tapster |