[Footnote 234-3: _Des Essart_, Dictionnaire universel de Police, VI, 146. In Great Britain, the Scotch luxury-law of 1621 is the last. (_Anderson_, Origin of Commerce, a. 1621.) In Germany, there were some such laws until the end of the 18th century; and the laws regulating mourning have lasted longest. Compare that of Frederick the Great of 1777, the Bamberg and Wurzberg laws of 1784, in _Schlözer_, Staatsanzeigen, IX, 460; fol. 141 ff. There are many men who have no desire to go to any heavy expense in mourning, but do not dare to give expression thereto in certain cases, and therefore look with favor on a law to which they may appeal as an excuse.] [Footnote 234-4: Compare _N. Montaigne_, 1580, Essais, I, 63. A striking instance in antiquity: _Macrob._, II, 13; most recently in _Lotz_, Revision, I, 407.] [Footnote 234-5: Compare especially the French sumptuary law of 1567. Zaleucos went so far in his severity as to punish with death the drinking of unmixed wine, without the prescription of a physician. (_Athen._, IX, 429.) The effort has sometimes been made to enlist the feeling of honor of the people in the controlling of luxury. Thus old Zaleucos forbade the wearing of gold rings or Milesian cloth unless the wearer desired to commit adultery, or to be guilty of sins against nature (_Diodor._, XII, 21); but such laws are scarcely attended with success.] SECTION CCXXXV. DIFFICULTY OF ENFORCING SUMPTUARY LAWS.