Sentence:  ... to abate, and allay the fulnesse of "red", we doe not see "white" vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a <WSD>Chiue</WSD> of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas "white" in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.