ing suit.'

To wear something abnormally tight seems to be the condition of the
world in love, from James I. to David Copperfield.

Naturally, a man of the time might be riding down the street across a
Scotch plaid saddle cloth and pass by a beggar dressed in clothes of
Henry VIII.'s time, or pass a friend looking truly Elizabethan--but he
would find generally that the short, swollen trunks were very little
worn, and also--another point--that a number of men had taken to
walking in boots, tall boots, instead of shoes.

[Illustration: {A man of the time of James I.; a variation of
breeches}]

As he rides along in his velvet cloak, his puffed and slashed doublet,
his silken hose, his hands gloved with embroidered gloves, or bared to
show his rings, smelling of scents, a chain about his neck, he will
hear the many street cries about him:

'Will you buy any sand, mistress?'

'Brooms, brooms for old shoes! Pouch-rings, boots, or
buskings! Will ye buy any new brooms?'

'New oysters, new oysters! New, new cockles!'

'Fresh herrings, cockels nye!'

'Will you buy any straw?'

'Hay yee any kitchen stuff, maids?'

'Pippins fine! Cherrie ripe, ripe, ripe!'

[Illustration: A MAN OF THE TIME OF JAMES I. (1603-1625)

He shows the merging of the Elizabethan fashion into the fashion
of Charles I. The stiff doublet and the loose breeches, the plain
collar, and the ribbons at the knees. On his hawking glove is a
hawk, hooded and jessed.]

[Illustration: {Four men of the time of James I.; the bottom of a
doublet; an alternative collar; shoe and stocking}]

And he will pass apprentices, most of them still in flat caps, blue
doublets, and white cloth breeches and stockings, sewn all in one
piece, with daggers on their backs or at their sides. And then,
travelling with his man, he will come to his inn. For the life of me,
though it has little to do with dress, I must give this picture of an
inn from Fynes Moryson, which will do no harm, despite the fact that
Sir Walter Besant quoted some of it.

'As soon as a passenger comes to an Inn, the servants
run to him' (these would be in doublet and hose of some
plain colour, with shirt-collars to the doublets turned
down loose; the trunks would be wide and to the knee,
and there buttoned), 'and one takes his horse and walks
him till he be cool, then rubs him and gives him meat,
yet I must say t