Note 224-1 — Chapter II

Stuart, Principles, II, ch. 30, Ferguson, History of Civil Society, VI, 2. Thus Dandolus, Chron. Venet., 247, tells of the wife of a doge at Constantinople who was so given to luxury that she ate with a golden fork instead of her fingers. But she was punished for this outrage upon nature: her body began to stink even while she was alive. In the introduction to Hollinshed's Chronicon, 1557, there is a bitter complaint that, a short time previous, so many chimneys had been erected in England, that so many earthen and tin dishes had been introduced in the place of wooden ones. Another author finds fault that oak was then used in building instead of willow, and adds that formerly the men were of oak but now of willow. Slaney, On rural Expenditure, 41. Compare Xenoph., Cyrop., VIII, 8, 17.