Note 109 — THE NAVE
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"Several congregations find themselves already very much straitened; and if the mode increases, I wish it may not drive many ordinary women into meetings and conventicles. Should our sex at the same time take it into their heads to wear trunk breeches, a man and his wife would fill a whole pew."—Satire on Female Costume. Spectator, No. 127.
"At church in silks and satins new, And hoop of monstrous size; She never slumber'd in her pew But when she shut her eyes."—Goldsmith.