Towked and teynted and under tailor's hands.'[492]
Having dropped into verse, we may perhaps continue in that medium, and set out the various stages of the manufacture in a poem,[493] written in 1641, but equally applicable to earlier times:—
'1. First the Parter, that doth neatly cull
The finer from the courser sort of wool.[494]
2. The Dyer then in order next doth stand,
With sweating brow and a laborious hand.
3. With oil they then asperge it, which being done,
4. The careful hand of Mixers round it runne.
5. The Stockcarder his arms doth hard imploy