ON FASHION
[437]. ‘Born of nothing,’ etc. Cf. ante, note to p. 421. ‘His garment,’ etc. The Faerie Queene, III. xii. 8. ‘The great vulgar and the small.’ Cowley, Horace’s Odes, III. 1. [439]. ‘The sign of an inward,’ etc. Misquoted from the Catechism. [440]. ‘And are, when unadorned,’ etc. Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, 206. ‘The city madam’ [woman], etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. ‘The age is grown so picked,’ etc. Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. [441]. The story in Peregrine Pickle. Chap, lxxxvii. ‘Lisping and ambling,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. [442]. ‘In a high or low degree.’ Cf. Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1. 137. ‘And thin partitions,’ etc. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 164. ‘Kings are naturally,’ etc. Burke, Speech on Economical Reform (Works, Bohn, II. 106).