Th' have left thee naked, Lord,O that they had! Thisgarment too I would they had denied. Thee with thyself they have too richly clad, Opening the purple wardrobe of thy side. O never could be found garments too good For thee to wear, but these, of thine own blood.

-Crashaw, Richard
  'On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody'.

Purple haze is in my brain Lately things don't seem the same.

-Hendrix,Jimi (James Marshall)
  'Purple Haze'.

Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.3.

   Here is wine, Alive with sparklesönever, I aver, Since Ariadne was a vintager, So cool a purple.

-Keats,John
  Endymion, bk.2, l.441^4.

Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, With gillyflowers: Bring coronation, and sops in wine, Worn of paramours. Strew me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Shepherd's Calendar,'April', l.136^41.