232 Painter: h the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 



and a pair of fHeers, as a fatire on our fickle- 

 nefs in fafhions. This thought was bor- 

 rowed from Andrew Borde^ who in his in- 

 trodu6tion to knowledge, to the firft chap- 

 ter prefixed a naked Englifhman^ with thefe 

 lines, 



I am an Englifhman, and naked I Hand here, 

 Muiing in my mind what rayment I lliall wear.* 



Lucas 



* It is not extraordinary that this witticifm (hould 

 have been adopted into the lord admiral's gallery. An- 

 drew Borde, or Andreas Perforatus, as he called him- 

 felf, w::s an admired wit in the latterend of Henry VIII. 

 to whom he was fome time phyfician. He had been a 

 Carthuiian, then rambled over many parts of the world, 

 turned phyfician, and at lafl wrote againft the mar- 

 riage of priefts ; for which I conclude (though Antony 

 Wood could not guefs the reafon) he was fhut up in pri- 

 fen, where fome faid he poifoned himfelf. He wrote 

 The Introduction to knowledge, partly in verfe and 

 partly in profe, and dedicated it to the lady Mary, af- 

 terwards queen. There are cuts before every chapter. 

 Ecfore the feventh is his own pidure, {landing in a pc^v 

 with a canopy over him, a gown with wide fleeves and 

 a chaplet of laurel. The title of the chapter is, " The 

 feventh chapter fhoweth how the author of this boke 

 had dvselt in Scotland, and did go thorow and round 

 about Chriftendom, and out of Chriflendom, declaring 

 the properties of all the regions, countries and pro- 

 vinces, the which he did travel thorow." He wrote be- 

 fjdcs. The Breviary of Health ; a Dietary of Health ; 



The 



