True Blue

On the origin of this expression, I must claim the right to dissent from your correspondent G. F. G., who appears to have fallen into the error of confining a form of very wide application to one particular case, in which he discovers a trifling coincidence of fact. The connexion of the colour blue with truth is of very ancient date, of which the following may for the present suffice as an example:— "And by hire beddes hed she made a mew And covered it with velouettes blew, In signe of trouth, that is in woman sene." Chaucer, *Squiere's Tale*. Blue, in the early practice of the tinctorial art,…