an Essex calf, peeping out of a thicket of brambles; for I can scarce see any part of your face but your mouth for perriwig.

“Prim. As slight as you make of my wig, Sir, I would have you to know, Sir, it cost me fifty guineas; and if I was to tell you how it was made, I am sure you would think it worth the money."

In order to give the most perfect idea of the various habits which have generally disguised and sometimes ornamented the human body, I have annexed a number of prints to this chapter, all of which are derived from sources of indisputable authenticity in those from illuminated manuscripts, the attitudes and action of each person are my own, but the habits and the colours are exactly similar to the originals. Two of the figures in dress, 1660, 1675, are copies from a print in the "Courtier's Calling;" and the third is the "Enamorata," in a similar publication. The plate of dress, reign of Charles I., and Interregnum, originated from Bulwer's "Man transformed," 1650. Dress of the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth comes from the same source; and dress, reign of Elizabeth, from a monument at Hackney. Dress, reign of Edward VI., one figure from a vignette common in works of that date; and the two others from Latimer preaching before the above monarch. The Antiquary will recognize the dress of Caxton in dress 1461. To descend into further particulars would be tedious, betray a doubt of my own veracity, and be perfectly useless to those acquainted with the history of their country. If, however, any of my readers should require proof that I have not deceived them in the illustrations of dress, they may find the garments of every figure in the remaining seven plates, by consulting Vitellius, A. xiii., Nero, D. vii., 20 B. vi. 15 E. VI., and 15 E. IV., in the Cotton and King's libraries, Harl. MS. 1319, and Digby 233, Bodleian library.

Dr. Fuller, in his "Worthies," London, p. 193, gives the following particulars respecting the Wardrobe in the Tower: "This was not that for the King's wearing apparel, or liveries of servants (kept elsewhere in an house so called, in the parish of St. Andrew's Wardrobe), but for vests or robes of state, with rich carpets, canopies, and hangings, to be used on great solemnities. There were also kept in this place, the antient cloaths of our English kings, which they wore on great festivals; so that this wardrobe was in effect a library for Antiquaries, therein to read the mode and fashion of garments in all ages. These King James, in the beginning of his reign, gave to the Earl of Dunbar, by whom they were sold, re-sold, and re-re-sold, at as many hands almost as Briarius had, some gaining vast estates thereby."

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