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by right the next lieeres ; when they passe in sale they go with 

 warrantize in as solemn manner as a good lordshipe. 



Elsewhere he says, — 



Out dames take a great pride in braverie, and have these not 

 only hang dangling at their fingers, but also two or three of them 

 together pendent at their eares. And names forsoothe they have 

 newly devised for them, when they serve theire turn ia this their 

 wantone exoesse and superfluitie of roiot ; for when they knocke 

 one against another, as they hang on their eares and fingers, they 

 call them Crotalia (rattlers), as if they take pleasure to hear the 

 sound of these pearles rattling together. Now adaies, it is grown 

 to this passe, that men and women, and poore men's wives affect 

 to wear them because they would be thought riche ; and a by- 

 word it is among them, that a fair pearle in a woman's eare is as 

 good, in where she goeth as an huisher to make way ; for that 

 every one will give such the place. Way, our gentleinen have 

 come now to weare them on their feet, and not at their shoe lat- 

 chets only, but also upon their startops and fine buskins, which 

 they garnish aU over with pearle. For it will not suffice nor 

 serve their turne, to carrie pearles about them, but they must 

 tread upon pearles, go among pearles, and walk as it were upon a 

 pavement of pearles. 



Our extracts from Pliny haye been long, yet we can- 

 not close them without citing two particular cases in 

 poiat to show the prodigious price set upon pearls, am 

 the prodigality of the women who wore them. The lad; 

 he first mentions is Lollia Paulina, late wife and then 

 widow of the Emperor Caligula, whom 



I myself have seen when she was dressed and set out, not iu 

 stately wise, nor of purpose for some great solemnitie, but only 

 when she was to goe to a wedding supper, or rather, to a feast 

 when the assurance was made, and great persons they were not, 

 tha,t made the said feast. I have seen her, I say, so beset and 

 bedeckt all over with hemeraulds and pearles, disposed in rows, 

 rankes, and courses one by another; round about the attire of 

 her head, her carole, her borders, her peruke of hair, her bon- 

 grace and ohaplet ; at her ears pendent, about her neck iu a car- 

 oenet, upon her wrests in bracelets, and on her fingers in rings, 

 that she ghtterd and shone againe like the sun as she went. The 

 value of these ornaments she esteemd and rated at four hundred 



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