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upper part of their forehead, and hath 

 commonly worked out in letters some light 

 and foolish love-posie ; their bare, black and 

 tauny breasts are covered with bobs hanging 

 from their chaines of pearles. And when 

 they goe abroad, they use a white mantle of 

 lawne or cambricke, rounded with a broad 

 lace, which some put over their heads, the 

 bredth reaching only to their middle behind, 

 that their girdle and ribbands may be seen, 

 and the two ends reaching to the ground 

 almost; others cast their mantles only upon 

 their shoulders, and, swaggerers like, cast the 

 one end over the left shoulder, that they may 

 the better jog the right arme, and shew their 

 broad sleeve as they walke along; others, 

 instead of this mantle, use some rich silke 

 petticoat, to hang upon their left shoulders, 

 while, with their right arme, they support the 

 lower part of it, more like roaring boys than 

 honest civil maids. Their shooes are high 



