Note 27 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
Per.
Señor Fuentes, que mudanza
Habeis hecho en el calzado,
Con que andais tan abultado?
Fuent.
Señor, calzas á la usanza.
Per.
Pense qu’ era verdugado.
Fuent.
Pues yo d’ ellas no me corro.
Que han de ser como las vuesas?
Hermano, ya no usan d’ esas.
Per.
Mas que les hechais de aforro,
Que aun se paran tan tiesas?
Fuent.
D’ eso poco: un sayo viejo
Y toda una ruin capa,
Que á esta calza no escapa.
Per.
Pues, si van á mi consejo,
Hecharan una gualdrapa.
Fuent.
Y aun otros mandan poner
Copia de paja y esparto,
Porque les abulten harto.
Per.
Esos deben de tener
De bestias quizá algun quarto.
Fuent.
Pondrase qualquier alhaja
Por traer calza gallarda.
Per.
Cierto yo no sé que aguarda
Quien va vestido de paja
De hacerse alguna albarda.
I do not know that this dialogue is printed anywhere but at the end of the edition of the Comedias, 1576. It refers evidently to the broad-bottomed stuffed hose, then coming into fashion; such as the daughter of Sancho, in her vanity, when she heard her father was governor of Barrataria, wanted to see him wear; and such as Don Carlos, according to the account of Thuanus, wore, when he used to hide in their strange recesses the pistols that alarmed Philip II.;—“caligis, quæ amplissimæ de more gentis in usu sunt.” They were forbidden by a royal ordinance in 1623. See D. Quixote, (Parte II. c. 50), with two amusing stories told in the notes of Pellicer, and Thuani Historiarum, Lib. XLI., at the beginning.