‘Our veiled dames.’
‘Commit the war of white and damask in their nicely gawded cheeks to the wanton and spoil of Phœbus’ burning kisses.’
‘Doublets that hangmen would bury with these that wore them.’
I have not kept the lines in verse, but in a convenient way to show their allusions.
In ‘Pericles’ we have mention of ruffs and bases. Pericles says:
‘I am provided of a pair of bases.’
Certainly the bases might be made to appear Roman, if one accepts the long slips of cloth or leather in Roman military dress as being bases; but Shakespeare is really—as in the case of the ruffs—alluding to the petticoats of the doublet of his time worn by grave persons. Bases also apply to silk hose.
In ‘Titus Andronicus’ we have:
‘An idiot holds his bauble for his God.’
Julius Cæsar is mentioned as an Elizabethan: