Note 288 — SCENE III.

this steeple] “Of such hats P. Stubbes speaks in his celebrated work, the Anatomie of Abuses, 1585. ‘Sometimes they use them sharp on the croune, pearking up like the spere or shaft of a steeple, standing a quarter of a yarde above the crowne of their heads, some more, some less, as please the phantasies of their unconstant mindes.’” Reed.