Note 994 — Chapter VI

Cp. Sedley, Mulberry Garden (Sir J. Everyoung: "Which is the most à la mode right revered spark? points or laces? girdle or shoulder belts? What say your letters out of France?"). There is hardly a comedy of the time without some such references to French fashions; cp. Etherege, Sir Fopling Flutter; Shadwell, Humours of the Army, etc.