And won my heart to change
And thou mayst surely cull
Songs new and sweet, and still more beautiful:
Sing new ones, then, to which no memories cling—
Most memories have their sting.
COSTUMES OF ALL NATIONS.—SECOND SERIES.
THE TOILETTE IN ENGLAND.
CHAPTER I
Ancient authors disagree in the accounts they give of the dress of the first inhabitants of Britain. Some assert that, previously to the first descent of the Romans, the people wore no clothing at all: other writers, however (and, probably, with more truth), state that they clothed themselves with the skins of wild animals; and as their mode of life required activity and freedom of limb, loose skins over their bodies, fastened, probably, with a thorn, would give them the needful warmth, without in any degree restraining the liberty of action so necessary to the hardy mountaineer.