4o' OfthevanityofcoffyAnd6raneapparell. lies. For whereas the callingof the womankind tieth them to keepe the chiefe part oftheir refidenceat home,imitating the fnailewhich carieth her houle vpon her backe ; contra- riwife hauing fpcnt a great part ofthe day in drefiing of themfelues in their rich andcoyly attire,they hauenow no power to flayat home, but needs they mutt goe abrode to (hew their brauerie, as thinking their coflly appareil and vainc fafhions not worth the wearing, vnleffe they might be feeneoften,andmuch admired. And to fay truth, fuch are aswell abrode asat home, feeing by their habit they haue made themfeluesvnfit for any hufwifely dutie; for neither may theycomeneere thole placeswhich require their chiefe refidence,for foiling oftheir clothes, neither are they able toflirre themfeluesmore then images,for theperforming of any lwfineffe.Yea to that heightofpride is the world come, that eueriepettie gentlewoman skorneth to be feene in any fuch hufewifelie imployments, whereas in ancient times, Pimp. princes and quecnes thought ittheir chicleglory, as we may fee in the example ofSalomons mother. §. Seïd. 23. And asthis pride ofapparell is a caufe of much (inne in That this ex- refpeel ofthemfelues that vie it; fo alto in regardofothers, cef'eeau¡eth whetherweter privateperionsor the whole common- manyyid, both wealth. For what greatcr caufe I pray you is there ofbribing to primateper- and extorfion, fraudand coufonage,oppreflingofthe poore remm on-to the by cruel! landlords, whilefl vnmeafurablie they encreafe weals!). their finesand inhancetheir rents, yea ofwrongs and iniu- ries, rapineandviolence, theft and facriledge, then this ex- ces in cofUUyapparel,menbeing refolued torun any defperat and wicked courfe, rather then they will want meanesto maintain this pride. Neither doth thisexces in apparel bring leffe mifchiefe to the whole common-wealththen to privat perlons. For firfl,it ouerthroweth all order ofciuill focietie, whileft there is in the outwardhabit no diflin6lionofde- grees ; but the fuperiour and inferiour, the mailer and the . feruant, the maid and miflriffe, the nobleman and gentle- man, and the gentleman and farmer goe all alike ; fo as by the outward habite they cannot poflìblic bec difcerned the one from the other.Againe,it is the chicle caufeof thedecay of
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