The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . sure of the wearer. A doblet jaquet and hose of blue velvet, cutupon cloth of gold, embroidered, and a doub-let hose and jaquet of purple velvet, embroi- 73 dered, and cut upon cloth of gold, and linedwith black satin, are entries in an inventory ofthe wardrobe of Henry VIII. In 1535, a jerkin of purple velvet, withpurple satin sleeves, embroidered all over withVenice gold, was presented to the king by SirKichard Cromwell j and another jerkin of crim-son velvet, with wide sleeves of the same co-loured satin, is mentioned in t
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . sure of the wearer. A doblet jaquet and hose of blue velvet, cutupon cloth of gold, embroidered, and a doub-let hose and jaquet of purple velvet, embroi- 73 dered, and cut upon cloth of gold, and linedwith black satin, are entries in an inventory ofthe wardrobe of Henry VIII. In 1535, a jerkin of purple velvet, withpurple satin sleeves, embroidered all over withVenice gold, was presented to the king by SirKichard Cromwell j and another jerkin of crim-son velvet, with wide sleeves of the same co-loured satin, is mentioned in the same inven-tory. Scene VII. The table loherein all my thoughtsAre visibly characterd. The allusion is to the table-book, or tables,which were used, as at present, for noting down ILLUSTRATIONS. [aCT III. sometimes of slate. The Archbishop of York,in Henry IV., says : And therefore will he wipe his tables table-book of slate is engraved and de-scribed in Gesners treatise, De Rerum Fos-silium Figuris, 1565; and it has been copied inDouces something to be remembered. Hamlet says: My tables,—meet it is I set it were made sometimes of ivory, and Scene VII.— A true devoted comparison which Julia makes betweenthe ardour of her passion and the enthusiasmof the pilgrim, is exceedingly beautiful. Whentravelling was a business of considerable dangerand personal suffering, the pilgrim who was notweary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps, to encounter the perils of a journey to Eome,or Loretto, or Compostella, or Jerusalem, was aperson to be looked upon as thoroughly inearnest. In the time of Shakspere the pilgrim-ages to the tomb of St. Thomas a Becket, atCanterbury, which Chaucer has rendered im-mortal, were discontinued; and few, perhaps,undertook the sea voyage to Jerusalem. Butthe pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James, or , the patron-saint of Spain, at Compostella,was undertaken by all classes of Catholics. Thehouse o
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