BUCKINGHAM IN HIS SEDAN CHAIR. 2S3 



sometimes at the action of the parties, which 

 rises like a little cloud, but soon vanishes. 



" So after, when Buckingham came to be 

 carried in a chair upon men's shoulders, the 

 clamour and noise of it was so extravagant 

 that the people would rail on him in the streets, 

 loathinc' that men should be brous^ht to as 

 servile a condition as horses ; so irksome is 

 every little new impression that breaks an old 

 custom, and rubs and grates against the public 

 humour ; but when time had made those chairs 

 common, every minion used them ; so that that 

 which gave at first so much scandal was the 

 means to convey those privately to such places, 

 where they might give much more. Just like 

 long hair, at one time described as abominable — 

 another time approved of as beautiful." 



