. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. ^^ Scene V. — The impyessure her of the many evidences of Shaksperesfamiliarity with ancient works of art, in com- mon with the best educated of his time. Wegive a copy of an antique Lucrece; —. 2 Scene Y. Wished to see thee ever cross-gartered. Barton Holyday, who wrote fifty years afterShakspere, describes this fashion in connectionwith a Puritan :— Had there appeard some sharp cross-garterd their loud laugh might nickname Puritan;Casd up in factious breeches, and small ruff;That hates the surplice, an
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. ^^ Scene V. — The impyessure her of the many evidences of Shaksperesfamiliarity with ancient works of art, in com- mon with the best educated of his time. Wegive a copy of an antique Lucrece; —. 2 Scene Y. Wished to see thee ever cross-gartered. Barton Holyday, who wrote fifty years afterShakspere, describes this fashion in connectionwith a Puritan :— Had there appeard some sharp cross-garterd their loud laugh might nickname Puritan;Casd up in factious breeches, and small ruff;That hates the surplice, and defies the cuff. The fashion is of great antiquity. In the 24thvol. of the Archeeologia, Mr. Gage has describedan illumination of a manuscript of the tenthcentury in the library of the Duke of Devon-shire, where this costume is clearly Gage says— The kind of bandaged stock-ing, so common in all Saxon figures, which isseen to advantage in the miniature of the Magi,where the principal figure (copied in the cut) SCENE v.] TWELFTH NIGHT. 335
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