ferent knit.'

Also we have a cap 'moulded on a porringer.'

'Love's Labour's Lost' tells of:

'Your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of your eyes;
with your arms crossed on your thin belly doublet like a
rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket like a
man after the old painting.'

'All's Well that Ends Well':

'Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? Dost
make a hose of thy sleeves?'

'Yonder's my lord your son with a patch of velvet on's
face: whether there be a scar under't or no, the velvet
knows.... There's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine
hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head and
nod at every man.'

In 'Henry IV.,' Part II., there is an allusion to the blue dress of
Beadles. Also:

'About the satin for my short cloak and slops.'

'The smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes,
and bunches of keys at their girdles.'

'To take notice how many pair of silk stockings thou
hast, or to bear the inventory of thy shirts.'

There are small and unimportant remarks upon dress in other plays, as
dancing-shoes in 'Romeo and Juliet' and in 'Henry VIII.':

'The remains of fool and feather that they got in France.'

'Tennis and tall stockings,
Short blistered breeches and those types of travel.'

But in 'Hamlet' we find more allusions than in the rest. Hamlet is
ever before us in his black:

''Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black.'

'Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fouled,
Ungartered, and down-goes to his ancle;
Pale as his shirt.'

'Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you
last, by the altitude of a chopine.'[D]

[D] Shoes with very high soles.

'O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion into tatters.'

'With two provincial roses on my ragged shoes,
My sea-gown scarfed about me.'

Having read this, I think it will be seen that there is no such great
difficulty in costuming any play, except perhaps this last. There have
been many attempts to put 'Hamlet' into the clothes of the date of his
story, but even when the rest of the characters are dressed in skins
and cross-gartered trousers, when the Viking element is strongly
insisted upon, still there remains the absolutel