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pearles, disposed in rewes, ranks, and courses, one 
by anotlier, I'ound about the attire of her head, her 
cawle, her borders, her peruk of hair, her bond grace 
and chaplet, at her enres pendant, about her neck in 
a carcanet, vpon her wrest in bracelets, and on her 
fingers in rings, that she glittered and shon again like 
tlie sun as she went. The value of these ornaments 
she esteemed and rated at 400,000 hundred (40 mil- 
lions) sesterces ;* and offered fairly to proue it off- 
hand by her bookes of accounts and reckonings. 
Yet were not these jewels the gifts and presents of 
the prodigall prince her husband, hut the goods and 
ornaments from her own house, fallen to her by way 
of inheritance from her grandfather, which he had 
gotten together, euen by the robbing and spoiling of 
whole prouinces. It was not sufficient, belike, (con- 
tinues our author, in reproliating the luxuries of his 
fellow-citizens,) to bring the seas into the kitchen 
to let them down the throat into the bcllie, vnlesse 
men and women both caried them about in their 
hands and eares, vpou their head, and all ouer their 
body. And yet what societie and affinitie is there 
betwixt the sea and apparell ; what proportion be- 
twixt the waues and surging hillowes thereof, and 
wooll ? for surely this element naturally receiues us 
not in her bosom, vnlesse we be stark-naked ; and 
set the case, there were so great good fellowship 
with it and our bellies, how comes our backe and 
• Equivalent, perhaps, to L. 400,000 Sterling. 
