Note 92 — CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS: (continued 3)

Harvey’s love of dress, and desire to indulge it cheaply, is satirically alluded to by Nash, in confuting Harvey’s assertion that Greene’s wardrobe at his death was not worth more than three shillings—“I know a broker in a spruce leather jerkin shall give you thirty shillings for the doublet alone, if you can help him to it. Hark in your ear! he had a very fair cloak, with sleeves of a goose green, it would serve you as fine as may be. No more words; if you be wise, play the good husband, and listen after it, you may buy it ten shillings better cheap than it cost him. By St. Silver, it is good to be circumspect in casting for the world; there’s a great many ropes go to ten shillings? If you want a greasy pair of silk stockings to shew yourself in the court, they are there to be had too, amongst his moveables.”—Ed.