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gold, lined with fur, and one smiles at her order for the delivery of fourteen yards of murrey damask for the "making of a nyghtgowne for the Erle of Leycester."

But this brings us to the subject of Elizabethan dress and a brief description of—

"Silken coats and caps and golden rings,
 With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things,
 With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
 With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery."