The Monmouthshire quintet in their all white and scarlet caps are faced by the Hussars in their blue and scarlet hoops.
"Belles and Ringers"
Hawley Smart
The Purple Island, Phineas Fletcher's chief work, is an allegorical poem of the human body, written in a stanza different only from that of Christ's Victory in being of seven lines only, the quintet of Giles being cut down to a regular elegiac quatrain.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
It was a quintet, consisting of a Frenchman, an Englishman, an Irishman, a Cornishman, and a German.
"The River and I"
John G. Neihardt