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Linsey, a coarse cloth, was made of linen and wool, or occasionally of cotton and wool; kersey, a knit woolen cloth, usually coarse and ribbed, manufactured in England as early as the thirteenth century, was especially for hose; lockram was a sort of a coarse linen or hempen cloth, and penniston, a coarse woolen frieze.
My coat is of fine cloth, and my shirt of holland; your shirt is lockram, and you wear no coat at all: ergo, saith a world of pretty fellows, we are beings of separate planets. 'As the cloth is, the man is, to which doctrine I am at times heretic. I have some store of yellow metal, and spend my days in ridding myself of it, a feat which you have accomplished.
Door and window faced the west, and the glow from the sinking sun illumined the thousand and one features of the place. Here was the glint of tools and weapons; there pewter shone like silver, and brass dazzled the eyes. Bales of red cotton, blue linen, flowered Kidderminster, scarlet serge, gold and silver drugget, all sorts of woven stuffs from lockram to brocade, made bright the shelves.
There goes 'the seld shown flamen, puffing his way to win a vulgar station, here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks, a moment; look at that 'kitchen malkin, peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck, eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself 'into a rapture' while his 'prattling nurse' has ears and eyes for the hero only, as 'she chats him. Look at them all, for every creature you see here, from 'the seld shown flamen' to the 'kitchen malkin, belongs soul and body to 'our gracious Empress, and Essex and Raleigh are still winning their garlands of the war, that is when the scene is taken, but not when it was put in its place and framed in this composition; for their game was up ere then.
'The kitchen malkin, with her richest lockram pinned on her neck, clambering the wall to eye him, spake for hers; 'the seld-shown flamen, puffing his way to win a vulgar station, was hastening to record the vote of his; 'the veiled dame, exposing the war of white and damask in her nicely-gawded cheeks to the spoil of Phebus' burning kisses, was a tribune, too, in this Poet's distribution of the tribes, and spake out for the veiled dames; 'the prattling nurse' who will give her baby that is 'crying itself into a rapture there, while she chats him' her reminiscence of this scene by and by, was there to give the nurses' approbation.
England preferred old heroes and their claims to new ones. 'I fear there will a worse come in his place, was the cautious instinct. Bru. All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him: Your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry, While she chats him: the kitchin malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck.
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