| Cym V.i.2 | [Posthumus alone, to a bloody cloth] I'll keep thee: for I wished / Thou shouldst be coloured thus |
| TS IV.i.120 | [Grumio to Petruchio] There was no link to colour Peter's hat |
| WT II.ii.20.1 | [Paulina alone] Here's such ado to make no stain a stain / As passes colouring [i.e. it exceeds the dyer's skill] [also: sense 2, i.e. it exceeds all belief] |