Note 100 — BOOK IV. (continued 3)

The literal translation is, ‘For, from the skirts—for I would not mention the ‘sleeves.’ The Spaniards, instead of the English phrase, ‘By Hook or by Crook,’ use this of ‘From the sleeves, or the skirts;’ derived from the practice of taylors, who are supposed to cabbage from those parts of the habit in which there is the greatest quantity of cloth; but the knight’s exception of sleeves, on this occasion, seems to have proceeded from a supposition that poor scholars are generally provided for in the church, and consequently wear cassocks, which descend to the heels.