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The skirts, then, of these great ruffs are long and side every way, pleted and crested full curiously, God wot." Time will not serve us to follow old Stubbes into his particular inquisition of every article of woman's attire, and his hearty damnation of them all and several.
Bath and Wells to Canterbury, Prynne, supra, loc. cit. J.E. Binney, Morebath Acc'ts , 86. When in 1651 at St. Thomas', Salisbury, clerk-ales were abolished, "both the clerk and sexton claimed compensation for the loss of income sustained." The same was true of St. Swayne, St. Edmund and St. Thomas Acc'ts, introd., p. xvii. Stubbes, Anatomie, etc., 110.
Stubbes declares that the women of England color their faces with oils, liquors, unguents, and waters made to that end, thinking to make themselves fairer than God made them a presumptuous audacity to make God untrue in his word; and he heaps vehement curses upon the immodest practice.
He looked for a moment at me, then at Stubbes, and then burst out himself, as loud as either of us. When he had at length recovered himself, he wiped his face with his handkerchief, and said, with a tone of much gravity: "But, my dear Lorrequer, this will be a serious a devilish serious affair. You know what kind of man Colonel C is; and you are aware, too, you are not one of his prime favourites.
My first impulse, after amazement had a little subsided, was to laugh immoderately; in this I was joined by Stubbes, who, feeling that his mirth was participated in, gave full vent to his risibility.
"Stubbes," said I, "are you aware" I had only got so far in my question, when my servant, one of the most discreet of men, put on a broad grin, and turned away towards the door to hide his face. "What the devil does this mean?" said I, stamping with passion; "he is as bad as the rest. Stubbes," and this I spoke with the most grave and severe tone, "what is the meaning of the insolence?"
The amusements of the age were often rough, but certainly more moral than they were later; and although the theatres were denounced by such reformers as Stubbes as seminaries of vice, and disapproved by Harrison; they were better than after the Restoration, when the plays of Shakespeare were out of fashion.
Better than this pride which forerunneth destruction, in the opinion of Stubbes, is the habit of the Brazilian women, who "esteem so little of apparel" that they rather choose to go naked than be thought to be proud. As I read the times of Elizabeth, there was then greater prosperity and enjoyment of life among the common people than fifty or a hundred years later.
Should they meet you anywhere, kisses in abundance in fine, wherever you move there is nothing but kisses" a custom, says this reformer, who has not the fear of Stubbes before his eyes, "never to be sufficiently commended." We shall find no more convenient opportunity to end this part of the social study of the age of Shakespeare than with this naive picture of the sex which most adorned it.
Better than this pride which forerunneth destruction, in the opinion of Stubbes, is the habit of the Brazilian women, who "esteem so little of apparel" that they rather choose to go naked than be thought to be proud. As I read the times of Elizabeth, there was then greater prosperity and enjoyment of life among the common people than fifty or a hundred years later.
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