[1042] Cf. the account of Platter in 1599 (ch. xvi, introduction); also Donne, Satire, iv. 180 (ed. Muses' Library, ii. 196):

As fresh and sweet their apparels be, as be

The fields they sold to buy them. 'For a king

Those hose are,' cry the flatterers; and bring

Them next week to the theatre to sell;

and Jonson, Underwoods, xxxii:

Is it for these that Fine-man meets the street

Coached, or on foot-cloth, thrice changed every day,

To teach each suit he has the ready way

From Hyde Park to the stage, where at the last