In Middleton and
Rowley's _World Tossed at Tennis_ five different colored starches are
personified.
Rowley's _World Tossed at Tennis_ five different colored starches are
personified.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
See the frequent references to
this article of apparel in _Bart. Fair_. It is interesting to notice
that the hoods are worn at dinner.
=1. 1. 106, 7. = The readings of 'Whalley and Gifford are distinctly
inferior to the original.
=1. 1. 112, 3 Car-men Are got into the yellow starch. = Starch was
introduced in the age of Elizabeth to meet the needs of the huge
Spanish ruff which had come into favor some years before (see
_Soc. Eng. _, p. 386). It was frequently colored.
In Middleton and
Rowley's _World Tossed at Tennis_ five different colored starches are
personified. Stubbes says that it was 'of all collours and hues. '
Yellow starch must have come into fashion not long before this play
was acted, for in the _Owle's Allmanacke_, published in 1618, it is
said: 'Since yellow bandes and saffroned chaperoones came vp, is not
above two yeeres past. ' This, however, is not to be taken literally,
for the execution of Mrs. Turner took place Nov. 14, 1615. Of her
we read in Howell's Letters 1. 2: 'Mistress _Turner_, the first
inventress of _yellow Starch_, was executed in a Cobweb Lawn Ruff
of that colour at _Tyburn_; and with her I believe that _yellow
Starch_, which so much disfigured our Nation, and rendered them so
ridiculous and fantastic, will receive its Funeral. ' Sir S. D'Ewes
_(Autobiog. _ 1. 69) says that from that day it did, indeed, grow
'generally to be detested and disused. ' _The Vision of Sir Thomas
Overbury_, 1616 (quoted in Amos, _Great Oyer_, p. 50) speaks of
----that fantastic, ugly fall and ruff
Daub'd o'er with that base starch of yellow stuff
as already out of fashion. Its popularity must have returned,
however, since Barnaby Riche in the _Irish Hubbub_,1622, p.
40, laments that 'yellow starcht bands' were more popular than
ever, and he prophesies that the fashion 'shortly will be as
conversant amongst taylors, tapsters, and tinkers, as now they
have brought tobacco.
this article of apparel in _Bart. Fair_. It is interesting to notice
that the hoods are worn at dinner.
=1. 1. 106, 7. = The readings of 'Whalley and Gifford are distinctly
inferior to the original.
=1. 1. 112, 3 Car-men Are got into the yellow starch. = Starch was
introduced in the age of Elizabeth to meet the needs of the huge
Spanish ruff which had come into favor some years before (see
_Soc. Eng. _, p. 386). It was frequently colored.
In Middleton and
Rowley's _World Tossed at Tennis_ five different colored starches are
personified. Stubbes says that it was 'of all collours and hues. '
Yellow starch must have come into fashion not long before this play
was acted, for in the _Owle's Allmanacke_, published in 1618, it is
said: 'Since yellow bandes and saffroned chaperoones came vp, is not
above two yeeres past. ' This, however, is not to be taken literally,
for the execution of Mrs. Turner took place Nov. 14, 1615. Of her
we read in Howell's Letters 1. 2: 'Mistress _Turner_, the first
inventress of _yellow Starch_, was executed in a Cobweb Lawn Ruff
of that colour at _Tyburn_; and with her I believe that _yellow
Starch_, which so much disfigured our Nation, and rendered them so
ridiculous and fantastic, will receive its Funeral. ' Sir S. D'Ewes
_(Autobiog. _ 1. 69) says that from that day it did, indeed, grow
'generally to be detested and disused. ' _The Vision of Sir Thomas
Overbury_, 1616 (quoted in Amos, _Great Oyer_, p. 50) speaks of
----that fantastic, ugly fall and ruff
Daub'd o'er with that base starch of yellow stuff
as already out of fashion. Its popularity must have returned,
however, since Barnaby Riche in the _Irish Hubbub_,1622, p.
40, laments that 'yellow starcht bands' were more popular than
ever, and he prophesies that the fashion 'shortly will be as
conversant amongst taylors, tapsters, and tinkers, as now they
have brought tobacco.
