. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . Thou mine eyes, O Lord, that I sleepnot the sleep of Death. It was not Puritan chil-dren only at that time who were filled with deepreligious thought, and gave expression to thatthought even in infancy ; children of the Churchof England and of the Roman Catholic Churchwere all widely imbued with religious feeling, andBiblical words were the familiar speech of the day,of both young and old. It rouses in me strangeemotions when I gaze at this portrait and rememberall that came into the lives of these royal had been happier had
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . Thou mine eyes, O Lord, that I sleepnot the sleep of Death. It was not Puritan chil-dren only at that time who were filled with deepreligious thought, and gave expression to thatthought even in infancy ; children of the Churchof England and of the Roman Catholic Churchwere all widely imbued with religious feeling, andBiblical words were the familiar speech of the day,of both young and old. It rouses in me strangeemotions when I gaze at this portrait and rememberall that came into the lives of these royal had been happier had they been born, like thelittle Gibbes children, in America, and of untitledparents. At Amsterdam may be seen the portrait ofPrincess Mary painted with her cousin, Williamof Orange, who became her child-husband. Shehad the happiest life of any of the five — if she ever 282 Two Centuries of Costume could be happy after her fathers tragic death. Inthis later portrait she is a little older and sadder andstiffer. Her waist is more pinched, her shoulders. THE FORTRAtCTVRE OF THE MO^T ILLV^TRrOVi UNoble of Prince of Orange,etc born *$< married *} ] 64. J . » narrower, her face more demure. His likeness ishere given. The only marked difference in thedress of these children from the dress of the Gibbeschildren is in the lace; the royal family wear laces The Dress of Old-time Children 283 with deeply pointed edges, the point known as aVandyke. The American children wear straight-edged laces, as was the general manner of laces ofthat day. An old print of the Duke of York whenabout seven years old is given (facing page 168).He carries in his hand a quaint racket. The costume worn by these children is like thatof plebeian English children of the same date. Amanuscript drawing of a child of the people in thereign of Charles I shows a precisely similar dress,save that the child is in leading-strings held by themother; and in the belt to which the leading-st
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