Now these things happened in the land of En, and these are the things that did come to pass.
2 And howsoever a matter fell out, then did men say, Verily, it is so because of the war.
3 Yet, it was a reason for all the things that were left undone; and the things that were done, these also it did fully justify.
4 Wherefore many waxed uneasy, fearing how it would be for them when the war, it should be over.
5 ¶ Now the women of the land, they were full of foreboding, knowing not when their garments, they might be taken from them.
6 And they did make pretence, the one unto the other, concerning their purple and concerning their fine linen also.
7 And they would speak in this wise, saying, Dost thou perceive the poverty of mine apparel, and how frugal I am become in the matter of it?
8 Therefore do I wear these poor rags that thou seest, having none others, save only some. And they would shed a few tears for the hardness of their lot.
9 Nevertheless, the vendors of apparel did flourish in that day; neither did the women of the land go naked before the world.
10 ¶ Now the days that men called Flag Days, they did grow in number beyond all computation.