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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER IV
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He must be introduced to my Lady Suffolk.

She will know how to treat him.

In the first place, he must cast his country slough.

That ill-made doublet of green cloth must be exchanged for one of velvet slashed in the Venetian style like mine own, with hose stuffed and bombasted according to the mode.

A silk stocking will bring out the nice proportions of his leg; though, as I am a true gentleman, the youth has so well formed a limb that even his own villainous yarn coverings cannot disfigure it.


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