...Earl of Salisbury in reply to Earl of Pembroke: Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold,...ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Did...

...double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice or add another...heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Pembroke But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And, in...

...one of the advantages belonging to human nature: what can he be more with all of them put together? To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow,...of Heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.6 95. Sir Walter Scott Morning Chronicle, Tuesday 10 June 1823 Not previously attributed. Date...