It was yellow stockings that Malvolio mentioned in Twelfth Night. So do Maria and Oliva. Earlier, II, iii, Sir Toby had named it's tune, "Peggy Ramsay".

"Give me my yellow hose again" (A Merry Jest of John Thompson and Jackaman his wife), 1586, is sung by Ewan MacColl on Folkways FW 3044.