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" We weare more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted ; which hath given occasion to the Venetian, and other Italians, to brand the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him stark naked, with a... "
Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs - Page 77
by Thomas Percy - 1867 - 127 pages
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Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the ...

Frederick William Fairholt - 1860 - 638 pages
...which hath given occasion to the ian, and other Italians, to brand the Englishman with a notable nark of levity, by painting him stark naked, with a pair...making his fashion of attire according to the vain con• This " shotten-bellied doublet," as it was also sometimes ealled, appears to have gone oat of...
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The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - 1866 - 616 pages
...onely excepted ; which hath given occasion to the Venetians and other Italians to brand the Englishmen with a notable mark of levity by painting him stark...of attire according to the vain conception of his brain sick head, not to comeliness and decorum." So ancient is this complaint as to the versatility...
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The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted ; which hath d * a of that age found it was — Hero of Sesto und decorum." The print from which we copy is in Borde's ' Introduction of Knowledge ; ' and we subjoin...
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Comedies

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 470 pages
...more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted ; which hath given occasion to the Venetian and other Italians...of attire according to the vain conception of his braiu-siek head, not to comeliness and decorum." The print from which we copy is in Borde's ' Introduction...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1889 - 158 pages
...Italians to brand the Englishman with a notable marke of leuity, by painting him starke naked with a paire of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vaine inuention of his brainesicke head, not to comelinesse and decorum." (CORYAT, Crudities, 1611,...
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Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the ..., Volume 1

Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th Viscount) - 1896 - 514 pages
...more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted ; which hath given occasion to the Venetian, and other Italians,...his brain-sick head, not to comeliness and decorum." The fondness of the English for adopting new 1 This " shotten-bellied doublet," as it was also sometimes...
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Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in ..., Volume 1

Thomas Coryate - 1905 - 472 pages
...to brand the English-man with a notable marke of levity, by painting him starke naked with a paire of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vaine invention of his braine-sicke head, not to comelinesse and decorum. But to returne to these gowned...
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Gentlemen Errant: Being the Journeys and Adventures of Four Noblemen in ...

Nina Cust - 1909 - 612 pages
...Italians to brand the Englishman with a notable marke of levity, by painting him starke naked with a paire of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vaine invention of his braine-sicke head, not to comeliness and decorum.' In books, says Wilson, men...
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Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His ...

A. J. Hoenselaars - 1992 - 366 pages
...Italians to brand the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him starke naked with a paire of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vaine invention of his braine-sicke head, not to comelinesse and decorum. 55 The ideas underlying Webster's...
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The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 476 pages
...more fantastical fashions than any nation uniler the sun doth, tlie French only exeepted ; »Inch hath given occasion to the Venetian and other Italians...of attire according to the vain conception of his Ьшв-Mck head, not to comeliness and decorum." The print from which we copy is in Borde's ' Introduction...
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