Note 233 — Chapter XIV · WOMEN'S DRESS.
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Your Hoods and Cloaths or rather Riding Hoods Were first invented to steal People's Goods— For when their Wearers came with a Pretence To Buy—Tho' looking with much Innocence, Lace, Silk, or Muslin privately they steal And under those same Cloaks their Theft Conceal.[233]