_Induction_
to _The
Staple of News_, _Wks.
Staple of News_, _Wks.
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speaks of 'Powles, a Tennis-court, or a Playhouse' as a suitable
place to 'publish your clothes. ' Cf. also _Non-dram. Wks. _ 4. 51.
Sir Thomas Overbury gives the following description of 'a
Phantastique:' 'He withers his clothes on a stage as a salesman is
forced to do his suits in Birchin Lane; and when the play is done, if
you mark his rising, 'tis with a kind of walking epilogue between the
two candles, to know if his suit may pass for current. ' Morley, p. 73.
Stephen Gosson (_School of Abuse_, p. 29) says that 'overlashing
in apparel is so common a fault, that the verye hyerlings of
some of our plaiers, which stand at reversion of vi^s by
the weeke, jet under gentlemens noses in sutes of silke. '
=1. 6. 37, 8 For, they doe come
To see vs, Loue, as wee doe to see them. = Cf.
_Induction_ to _The
Staple of News_, _Wks. _ 5. 151: 'Yes, on the stage; we are persons
of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see
and to be seen. ' _Silent Woman_, _Wks. _ 3. 409: 'and come abroad
where the matter is frequent, to court, . . . to plays, . . .
thither they come to shew their new tires too, to see, and to
be seen. ' Massinger, _City Madam_, _Wks. _, p. 323:
_Sir. Maur.
speaks of 'Powles, a Tennis-court, or a Playhouse' as a suitable
place to 'publish your clothes. ' Cf. also _Non-dram. Wks. _ 4. 51.
Sir Thomas Overbury gives the following description of 'a
Phantastique:' 'He withers his clothes on a stage as a salesman is
forced to do his suits in Birchin Lane; and when the play is done, if
you mark his rising, 'tis with a kind of walking epilogue between the
two candles, to know if his suit may pass for current. ' Morley, p. 73.
Stephen Gosson (_School of Abuse_, p. 29) says that 'overlashing
in apparel is so common a fault, that the verye hyerlings of
some of our plaiers, which stand at reversion of vi^s by
the weeke, jet under gentlemens noses in sutes of silke. '
=1. 6. 37, 8 For, they doe come
To see vs, Loue, as wee doe to see them. = Cf.
_Induction_ to _The
Staple of News_, _Wks. _ 5. 151: 'Yes, on the stage; we are persons
of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see
and to be seen. ' _Silent Woman_, _Wks. _ 3. 409: 'and come abroad
where the matter is frequent, to court, . . . to plays, . . .
thither they come to shew their new tires too, to see, and to
be seen. ' Massinger, _City Madam_, _Wks. _, p. 323:
_Sir. Maur.
