):
Weare a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold
And spangled garters worth a copyhold.
Weare a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold
And spangled garters worth a copyhold.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
= Howes, p.
869.
tells us that John Tuce,
'dweling neere Shorditch Church', first attained perfection in the
manufacture of cloth of tissue.
=1. 1. 127 Garters and roses. = Howes, p. 1039, says that 'at this
day (1631) men of meane rancke weare Garters, and shooe Roses, of
more than fiue pound price. ' Massinger, in the _City Madam_, _Wks. _,
p. 334, speaks of 'roses worth a family. ' Cf. also John Taylor's
_Works_, 1630 (quoted in _Hist. Brit. Cost_.
):
Weare a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold
And spangled garters worth a copyhold.
=1. 1. 128 Embroydred stockings. = 'Then haue they nether-stocks to
these gay hosen, not of cloth (though neuer so fine) for that is
thought to base, but of _Iarnsey_ worsted, silk, thred, and such
like, or els at the least of the finest yarn _that_ can be, and so
curiouslye knit with open seam down the leg, with quirks and clocks
about the ancles, and sometime (haply) interlaced with gold or siluer
threds, as is wonderful to behold. '--Stubbes, _Anat. _, Part 1, p. 57.
The selling of stockings was a separate trade at this time, and great
attention was paid to this article of clothing. Silk stockings are
frequently mentioned by the dramatists. Cf. Stephen Gosson, _Pleasant
Quippes_:
These worsted stockes of bravest die, and silken garters
fring'd with gold;
These corked shooes to beare them hie makes them to trip
it on the molde;
They mince it with a pace so strange,
Like untam'd heifers when they range.
=1. 1. 128 cut-worke smocks, and shirts. = Cf.
'dweling neere Shorditch Church', first attained perfection in the
manufacture of cloth of tissue.
=1. 1. 127 Garters and roses. = Howes, p. 1039, says that 'at this
day (1631) men of meane rancke weare Garters, and shooe Roses, of
more than fiue pound price. ' Massinger, in the _City Madam_, _Wks. _,
p. 334, speaks of 'roses worth a family. ' Cf. also John Taylor's
_Works_, 1630 (quoted in _Hist. Brit. Cost_.
):
Weare a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold
And spangled garters worth a copyhold.
=1. 1. 128 Embroydred stockings. = 'Then haue they nether-stocks to
these gay hosen, not of cloth (though neuer so fine) for that is
thought to base, but of _Iarnsey_ worsted, silk, thred, and such
like, or els at the least of the finest yarn _that_ can be, and so
curiouslye knit with open seam down the leg, with quirks and clocks
about the ancles, and sometime (haply) interlaced with gold or siluer
threds, as is wonderful to behold. '--Stubbes, _Anat. _, Part 1, p. 57.
The selling of stockings was a separate trade at this time, and great
attention was paid to this article of clothing. Silk stockings are
frequently mentioned by the dramatists. Cf. Stephen Gosson, _Pleasant
Quippes_:
These worsted stockes of bravest die, and silken garters
fring'd with gold;
These corked shooes to beare them hie makes them to trip
it on the molde;
They mince it with a pace so strange,
Like untam'd heifers when they range.
=1. 1. 128 cut-worke smocks, and shirts. = Cf.
