An economical captain, while taking care to case his legs in silk, might yet see fit to save his best suit, and fight in his old clothes.

For, besides that an old garment might much better be cut to pieces than a new one, it must be a mighty disagreeable thing to die in a stiff, tight-breasted coat, not yet worked easy under the arm-pits.

At such times, a man should feel free, unencumbered, and perfectly at his ease in point of straps and suspenders.

No ill-will concerning his tailor should intrude upon his thoughts of eternity.

Seneca understood this, when he chose to die naked in a bath.