328) and in the
_Alchemist_
(_Wks.
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Fastidious Brisk's boots are made of the same material (_Ev. Man
out_, _Wks. _ 2. 147). Cf. also Dekker, _Wks. _ 2. 305.
Perfumes were much in fashion, and Stubbes' _Anatomy_ has a great
deal to say on the subject. We hear of perfumed jerkins in Marston's
_Malcontent_ (_Wks. _ 1. 314) and in _Cynthia's Revels_ (_Wks. _ 2.
325). Spanish perfume for gloves is spoken of in the latter play
(p.
328) and in the _Alchemist_ (_Wks. _ 4. 131) 'your Spanish
titillation in a glove' is declared to be the best perfume.
=4. 4. 77, 8 The Guardo-duennas, such a little old man,=
=As this. = Minsheu gives the definition: 'Escudero, m. An
Esquire, a Seruingman that waits on a Ladie or Gentlewoman,
in Spaine neuer but old men and gray beards. '
=4. 4. 81 flat spred, as an Vmbrella. = The umbrella of the
seventeenth century seems to have been used exclusively to protect
the face from the sun. Blount, _Glossographia_, 1670, gives:
'_Umbrello_ (Ital. Ombrella), a fashion of round and broad Fans,
wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve
themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little
shadow, Fan, or other thing wherewith women guard their faces from
the sun. '
It was apparently not in use in England when Coryat published his
_Crudities_, which contains the following description (1. 135): 'Also
many of them doe carry other fine things of a far greater price, that
will cost at the least a duckat, which they commonly call in the
Italian tongue _vmbrellaes_, that is, things that minister shadow
unto them for shelter against the scorching heate of the sunne.
