Ontario High School History of England . lls it an ageof sham. Men paddedtheir stockings to havethe appearance of goodcalves, wore soles of thickcork to appear taller, andadorned themselves withbracelets and in maledress went to great ex-tremes. In one instancea single pair of the shortbreeches, known astrunk-hose, cost £ were often slashedin order to show richlinings, and these were ofbrilliant colours. Menwore great plumes andfeathers of divers colours in their hats. The women followed the vain Elizabeth toridiculous lengths; they carried vast frizzled, and so
Ontario High School History of England . lls it an ageof sham. Men paddedtheir stockings to havethe appearance of goodcalves, wore soles of thickcork to appear taller, andadorned themselves withbracelets and in maledress went to great ex-tremes. In one instancea single pair of the shortbreeches, known astrunk-hose, cost £ were often slashedin order to show richlinings, and these were ofbrilliant colours. Menwore great plumes andfeathers of divers colours in their hats. The women followed the vain Elizabeth toridiculous lengths; they carried vast frizzled, and some-times horned, erections on their heads, and the great ruffsround their necks rose at the back sometimes as high asthis head-dress. Absurd hoops, surrounding the waist witha wire structure that might almost be used as a table, wereworn for a time, but the usual fashion of Elizabeths reign,among both men and women, favoured long waists, inimitation of the queens figure. A ship was sooner riggedthan a woman says a satirist of the PiKKMAN, TIME OF ELIZABETH The long-handled pike with a sharp metalpoint had displaced the former spear. Themusket was the offensive, the pike thedefensive weapon, until a later time whenthe bayonet was added to the musket andmade the pike unnecessary. 248 HISTORY OF ENGLAND Food,—There were usually but two meals a day,—dinnerat about eleven and supper at five; whatever was takenearly in the morning did not rank as a meal. Meat, in-cluding fowl and game, was cheap; bread, our other staplebesides meat, was little used, vegetables like beans and peasetaking its place. The potato and tea and coffee were notyet familiar to Europe. Among the well-to-do, woodentrenchers and wooden spoons were now superseded bysilver. Forks were in common use, but only at the very endof Elizabeths reign. Soap was still scarce. Tobacco wasalready used by many, notwithstanding blasts against itlike those of Elizabeths successor, James I. Owing to baddrainage, plague
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