Marco Polo's best wonders made but a dingy show beside the "Field of the Cloth of Gold," where in this June the two defeated candidates for imperial honours had kissed each other midway between the ruined moat of Guisnes and the Rased battlements of Arde.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
Then we Rased off the flesh from the necke, and cast dust thereon, and set it in the sun to dry.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
And then when Sir Gareth was in the field all folks saw him well and plainly that he was in yellow colours; and there he Rased off helms and pulled down knights, that King Arthur had marvel what knight he was, for the king saw by his hair that it was the same knight.
"Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table"
Thomas Malory