Note 573 — Chapter XII · DRESS; PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL.
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“The hat Covers evil and good.”
[574]
“Strong hats made here to enclose the head, In order that the soft (loose) brains may be kept together.”
[575] J. S. Burn, History of Foreign Refugees, p. 257.
[576] Stubbe’s Anatomie of Abuses, p. 21.
[577] Bagford Bills.
[578] British Chronicle, July 17, 1766.
[579] Publick Advertiser, July 1767.
[580]
“This is in the Three Hats, Which are worn on the head, To keep it from cold and wind. Tromp was a brave man Who supported the crown of the states Hats cleaned here.”
[581] Shopbill, quoted in Thomson’s Chronicles of London Bridge, vol. ii., p. 277.
[582] Decker’s Gull’s Hornbook.
[583] Cibber’s Apology, p. 303.
[584] Gay’s Trivia, book iii.
[585] Weekly Journal, March 30, 1717.
[586] Weekly Journal. Jan. 4, 1718.
[587] Mercurius Publicus, Jan. 8 to 15, 1662.
[588] London Gazette, March 12 to 16, 1673. This was not the famous Will’s Coffee-house, which was situated in Bow Street, Covent Garden.
[589] Banks Bills.
[590] G. A. Corner, on the Inns of Southwark.
[591] Randle Holme, b. iii., ch. i., p. 14.
[592] London Gazette, July 31 to Aug. 4, 1679.
[593] Weekly Journal, Jan. 4, 1718.
[594]
“I am, my warlike Cassandra, Neither a Myrmidon nor a Dolopian warrior.”
“Everybody that reads those lines,” says Furretière in his Roman Bourgeois, “will certainly imagine that he alludes to some Pentasilea or Talestris; yet this warlike Cassandra was after all neither more nor less than a tall manly looking wench who kept the Wooden Shoe (Sabot) public-house in the Faubourg Saint Marcel.”
[595] Bagford Bills.
[596] See J. O. Halliwell’s folio Shakespeare, vol. ii., p. 468.
[597] The Tatler.
[598] “He looked intently at the seal, observing the impression left by the gold, and spoke these words to himself, ‘How beautifully and distinctly does this impression render the words,’ and he proved his useful discovery in exact books.”
[599] Gay’s Trivia, book i., p. 221.