Note 244 — REIGN OF CHARLES II.: 1673-1685.
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Law cites the following couplet, apparently as the last words of the apparition:
‘Plumashes above, and gramashes below, It’s no wonder to see how the world doth go.’
Plumashes are plumages; gramashes, coarse hose used as gaiters. The words seem to be used allegorically to express the two opposite conditions of life—that of the gay cavalier and the plain hard-working man.