‘Twelfth Night’ is celebrated for us by Malvolio’s cross garters. Sir Toby, who considers his clothes good enough to drink in, says:
‘So be these boots too: an they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps.’
Sir Toby also remarks to Sir Andrew upon the excellent constitution of his leg, and Sir Andrew replied that:
‘It does indifferent well in a flame-coloured stock.’
The Clown says:
‘A sentence is but a cheveril[C] glove to a good wit.’
In ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ we learn of one who lies awake ten nights, ‘carving the fashion of his doublet.’ Also of one who is
‘in the shape of two countries at once, as a German from the waist downwards all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet.’
‘Cloth of gold, and cuts, and laced with silver set with pearls down sides, side sleeves, and skirts, round under borne with a bluish tinsel.’