Note 145 — A C. MERY TALYS. (continued 2)

A very costly article of female dress during the reigns of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns. It constituted part of the head-gear, and from the way in which it was worn by some women, was calculated to convey a notion of skittishness. In the New Courtly Sonet of the Lady Greensleeves, printed in Robinson's "Handful of Pleasant Delites," 1584, the lover is made to say to his mistress:—

"I bought three kerchers to thy head, That were wrought fine and gallantly: I kept thee both at board and bed, Which cost my purse well-favourdly."