Note 41 — HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
Reading edition
In allusion, perhaps, to the custom of men who were ready to perjure themselves, as false witnesses, to go about with a straw sticking out from between the foot and the shoe—“men of straw.” [Riley.]
Reading edition
In allusion, perhaps, to the custom of men who were ready to perjure themselves, as false witnesses, to go about with a straw sticking out from between the foot and the shoe—“men of straw.” [Riley.]