[991] S. Butler, Hudibras.
[992] Evelyn, Diary, March 1671.
[993] Vincent, Young Gallants' Academy, 1674.
[994] Cp. Sedley, Mulberry Garden (Sir J. Everyoung: "Which is the most à la mode right revered spark? points or laces? girdle or shoulder belts? What say your letters out of France?"). There is hardly a comedy of the time without some such references to French fashions; cp. Etherege, Sir Fopling Flutter; Shadwell, Humours of the Army, etc.
[995] Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 18, 1666. Evelyn had himself written a pamphlet called Tyrannus or the Mode, an invective against "our overmuch affecting of French fashion," in which he praised the comeliness and usefulness of the Persian style of clothing. This he had presented to the king: "I do not impute to this discourse the change whiche soone happen'd, but it was an identity that I could not but take notice of" (Diary, Oct. 18 and 30, 1666).
[996] Butler, Satire on our ridiculous imitation of the French; "A l'étranger on prend plaisir à enchérir sur toutes les Nouveautez qui leur viennent de France. . . ." Muralt (Lettres, 1725).
[997] French Conjuror, 1678.
[998] Duc de Guise, Prologue; cp. Prologue to Albion and Albanius:
"Then 'tis the mode of France without whose Rules
None must presume to set up here as fools."
[999] French money was said to be most successful in bribes. Farquhar, Constant Couple, iv. 2.