Quotation

the greene we commonly use are these :
Greene Bice.
Vert-greece.
Verditure.
Sapgreene.
Of the blew and yellow, proceedeth the greene.
[…].

Greene Bice.
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Vert-greece.
Vert-greece is nothing else but the rust of Brasse, which in time being consumed and eaten with Tallow, turneth into greene, as you may see many times upon foule Candlestickes that have not beene often made cleane, wherefore it hath the name in Latine Aerugo, in French Vert de gris, or the hoary greene […].
 
Verditure.
[…], it is the faintest and palest greene that is, but it is good to velvet upon blacke in any manner of drapery.
 
Sap greene.
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