| 2H4 I.ii.248 | [Falstaff alone] 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my colour |
| 2H4 V.v.89 | [Falstaff to Shallow, of Henry V's remarks] This that you heard was but a colour [pun: 90] |
| 2H6 III.i.236 | [Cardinal to all, of Gloucester] we want a colour for his death |
| 3H6 IV.v.11 | [Richard to Hastings and Stanley, of Edward] if ... he make this way / Under the colour of his usual game, / He shall here find his friends |
| AC I.iii.32 | [Cleopatra to Antony] pray you seek no colour for your going |
| Cym III.i.51 | [Cymbeline to Cloten, of Caesar's ambition in Britain] against all colour here / Did put the yoke upon's |
| H5 II.ii.116 | [King Henry to Scroop] All other devils ... / Do botch and bungle up damnation / With patches, colours, and with forms |
| LLL IV.ii.148 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel] I do fear colourable colours |
| Luc.267 | [Tarquin to himself] Why hunt I then for colour or excuses? |
| Luc.476 | [of Lucrece talking to Tarquin] she ... urgeth still / Under what colour he commits this ill |
| Luc.481 | [Tarquin to Lucrece] Under that colour am I come to scale / Thy never-conquered fort |
| TG IV.ii.3 | [Proteus alone, of Thurio] Under the colour of commending him, / I have access my own love to prefer |
| WT IV.iv.552 | [Florizel to Camillo, of Leontes] What colour for my visitation shall I / Hold up before him? |