SONGS AND POEMS

ON

COSTUME:

FROM THE 13TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY.

EDITED BY

FREDERICK W. FAIRHOLT, ESQ., F.S.A.

"Pray thee, tell me, fashioner, what authors
Thou read'st to help thy invention? Italian prints?
Or Arras hangings? They are tailors' libraries."

Ben Jonson's Staple of Newes.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,

BY RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

MDCCCXLIX.

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The Percy Society.

President.

THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE, F.S.A.

Council.

THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A.

WILLIAM HENRY BLACK, Esq.

BOLTON CORNEY, Esq., M.R.S.L..

T. CROFTON CROKER, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.I.A.

J. H. DIXON, Esq.

FREDERICK WILLIAM FAIRHOLT, Esq. F.S.A.

J. M. GUTCH, Esq., F.S.A.

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S.,

F.S.A., Acting Secretary.

W. JERDAN, Esq. M.R.S.L.

J. S. MOORE, Esq.

E. RALEIGH MORAN, Esq.

T. J. PETTIGREW, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A.

JAMES PRIOR, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.I.A.

WILLIAM SANDYS, Esq. F.S.A.

THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A., Treasurer.