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Saffron, yellow for ostentation and celebration. In "All's Well that Ends Well : ...your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow, whose villanous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour" Also Malvolio is tricked into wearing yellow leg wear. I am considering the connection to wedlock and I wonder if the custom of dying the hands and hair of brides with henna in the Near East is related to the reference?Posted by Florence Amit on April 10, 1997 at 05:37:17
In Reply to "Hymen in As You Like It" posted by Kim on April 09, 1997 at 13:44:28
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