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Updated: May 26, 2025
A writer of the sixteenth century speaks of "Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision."
His face, which, as above mentioned, had scorbutic marks, is stated to be 'like a rotten russet apple when it is bruiz'd'; or, like the cover of a warming-pan, 'full of oylet-holes. He is called an 'uglie Pope Bonifacius; also a 'bricklayer; and he is asked why, instead of building chimneys and laying down bricks, he makes 'nothing but railes' 'filthy rotten railes' upon which alone his Muse leans.
A man had need have a strong backe, to undertake to march foot to foot with these kind of men. For, this infinite varietie and dissemblance of lustres, makes a face so wan, so il-favored, and so uglie, in respect of theirs, that they lose much more than gaine thereby.
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