Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Page 83
... fashion which we still retaine : But seeing that our sute is spent in vaine , Weele mend our selves as meanes in time doth grow , Accepting what some other friends bestowe . As now the honest printer hath bin kinde , Bootes and stockins ...
... fashion which we still retaine : But seeing that our sute is spent in vaine , Weele mend our selves as meanes in time doth grow , Accepting what some other friends bestowe . As now the honest printer hath bin kinde , Bootes and stockins ...
Page 127
... fashion , high sleeves , gathered at the elbows , and hanging sleeves behind . " P. 46 , 1. 29 , - " My breeches like a paire of lute - pins be , scarse buttocke - roome . " ] The breeches here alluded to were of French origin , and may ...
... fashion , high sleeves , gathered at the elbows , and hanging sleeves behind . " P. 46 , 1. 29 , - " My breeches like a paire of lute - pins be , scarse buttocke - roome . " ] The breeches here alluded to were of French origin , and may ...
Page 133
... fashion of trunk hose , as the pre- posterous , round , swelling breeches then in fashion were called . Wright , in his Passions of the Minde , 1601 , says , " This absurde , clownish , and unseemly attire only by custome now is not ...
... fashion of trunk hose , as the pre- posterous , round , swelling breeches then in fashion were called . Wright , in his Passions of the Minde , 1601 , says , " This absurde , clownish , and unseemly attire only by custome now is not ...
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