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296 HISTORY OF LACE. noble English lady depicted by Hollar, 71 must now lay aside her whisk, edged with broad lace of needle point, and no longer hie to St. Martin’s for lace : 72 she must content herself with a plain attire. “ Sempsters with ruffs and cuffs, and quoits and caules, And falls,” 73 must be dismissed. Smocks of three pounds a piece, 74 wrought smocks, 75 are no longer worn by all—much less those “ seam’d thro’ with cutwork.” 70 “Lace to her smocks, broad seaming laces,” 77 which, groans one of the Puritan writers, “ is horrible to think of.” The ruff and cuffs of Flanders, gold lace cutwork and silver lace of curie, 73 needle point, and fine gartering with blown roses, 79 are now suppressed under Puritan rule. The “ fop, ” whom Henry Fitz-Geoffrey describes as having “An attractive lace And whalebone bodies for the bettor grace,” must now think twice before he wears it. 30 The officer, whom the poor soldier apostrophises as shining— “ Oue blaze of plate about you, which puts out Our eyes when we march ’gainst the sunne, and armes you Compleatly with your own gold lace, which is Laid on so thick, that your own trimmings doe Render you engine proof, without more arms ”— 81 ” “Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus,” lace.”—Strype. jgqg 73 Taylor, “Whip of Pride,” 1010. 72 “ You must to the Pawn (Exchange) 74 In “ Eastward Ho,” 1005, proud to buy lawn, to St. Martin for lace.”— Gertrude says: “Smocks of three pound Westward Ho, 1007. a smock, are to be born with all.” “ A copper lace called St. Martin’s 75 “ Ilartholomew 1 air, 1014. 715 “ She shewed me gowns and head tires, Embroidered waistcoats, smocks seam’d tliro’ with outworks.” Beaumont and Fletcher, Four Flays in One, 1047. 77 “ Who would lia’ thought a woman so well harness’d, Or rather well caparison’d, indeed, That wears such petticoats, and lace to her smocks, Broad seaming laces.” Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, 1616. 78 A suite of russet “laced all over with silver curie lace.” — Expenses of lloht. Sidney, Earl of Leicester, temp. Chas. I. 70 “ This comes of wearing Scarlet, gold lace and outworks; your fine gartering With your fine blown roses.” The Devil is an Ass. 80 “Notes from Black Fryers.” 81 Jasper Mayne, “ Amorous War,” 1659.