Note 104:C — Chapter VI
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Luc. A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin, Unless you have a cod-piece to stick pins on.
Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iv. p. 236.
Thomas Wright in his "Passions of the Minde," first published in 1601, speaking of our countrymen's proneness to imitate French fashions, tells us in his chapter entitled "Discoverie of Passions in Apparell,"—"Some I have heard very contemptuously say, that scarcely a new forme of breeches appeared in the French King's kitchin but they were presently translated over into the court of England."