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"Now, Magot, let me see for thee," said her mother. "Thy two woollen gowns must be shorn for winter, and thou wilt want a velvet one for gala days: but there is time for that by and bye. "And may I not have a new mantle?" was Margaret's answer, in a coaxing tone. "A new mantle? Thou unconscionable Magot! Somebody will be ruined before thy wants are supplied." "And a red velvet gipciere, Lady?
I shall be completely ruined among you!" "But my Lady will give me the sendal of Inde? I will try to do without the gipciere." A gipciere was a velvet bag dependent from the waist, which served as a purse or pocket, as occasion required. "Magot, hast thou no conscience? Come, then, old man, let this unreasonable damsel see thy gipcieres.
Thus it came about that the Gascon youths found themselves furnished with tunics of blue and silver, richly embroidered with their master's cognizances, and trimmed with costly fur, with long mantles of blue cloth fastened with golden clasps, with rich girdles, furnished with gipciere and anelace, and hose and long embroidered shoes, such as they began to see were the fashion of the day in England.
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