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The Voyage

nen fiocking with a great laced canon turned down to his half leg : on the other he had a black filk fiockin drawn up-clofe. In fine, on one foot he had a white {panifh- leather fhoe, with a ftiff knot of fix coloured ribband a quarter of an elilong : on the.othera little black flat foled fhoe tyed with a fhore narrow ribband. Thus this moral Hermopbrodite and walking Em- biem of peace between the two na- tions, walked up and down the Corfe gravely ; yet laughing within himfelf, to fee how. he carried about him two fuch Antipathetical nations in one fuite of cloths. By this you may guefS at their other fooleries in Carneval time, and fee how innocently they divert then.- felves: for you muft know, thar none are suffered to carry {words or arms while they go masked thus; nor to enter into any house ; nor to be abroad masked after it grows dark; nor to do, or {peak any thing scandaloufly that may fhok civility or publick view ; for whichreason