=1. 1. 128 Embroydred stockings.= ‘Then haue they nether-stocks to these gay hosen, not of cloth (though neuer so fine) for that is thought to base, but of _Iarnsey_ worsted, silk, thred, and such like, or els at the least of the finest yarn _that_ can be, and so curiouslye knit with open seam down the leg, with quirks and clocks about the ancles, and sometime (haply) interlaced with gold or siluer threds, as is wonderful to behold.’--Stubbes, _Anat._, Part 1, p. 57. The selling of stockings was a separate trade at this time, and great attention was paid to this article of clothing. Silk stockings are frequently mentioned by the dramatists. Cf. Stephen Gosson, _Pleasant Quippes_: These worsted stockes of bravest die, and silken garters fring’d with gold; These corked shooes to beare them hie makes them to trip it on the molde; They mince it with a pace so strange, Like untam’d heifers when they range. =1. 1. 128 cut-worke smocks, and shirts.= Cf. B. & Fl., _Four Plays in One_: ----She show’d me gownes, head tires, Embroider’d waistcoats, smocks seamed with cutworks. =1. 1. 135 But you must take a body ready made.= King James in his _Dæmonologie_ (_Wks._, ed. 1616, p. 120) explains that the devil, though but of air, can ‘make himself palpable, either by assuming any dead bodie, and vsing the ministerie thereof, or else by deluding as well their sence of feeling as seeing.’ =1. 1. 143 our tribe of Brokers.= Cf. _Ev. Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 82: ‘_Wel._ Where got’st thou this coat, I marle? _Brai._ Of a Hounsditch man, sir, one of the devil’s near kinsmen, a broker.’ The pawnbrokers were cordially hated in Jonson’s time. Their quarter was Houndsditch. Stow says: ‘there are crept in among them [the inhabitants of Houndsditch] a base kinde of vermine, wel-deserving to bee ranked and numbred with them, whom our old Prophet and Countryman, _Gyldas_, called _Ætatis atramentum_, the black discredit of the Age, and of place where they are suffered to live.... These men, or rather monsters in the shape of men, professe to live by lending, and yet will lend nothing but upon pawnes;’ etc. Nash speaks of them in a similar strain: ‘Fruits shall be greatly eaten with Catterpillers; as Brokers, Farmers and Flatterers, which feeding on the sweate of other mens browes, shall greatlye hinder the beautye of the spring.’--_Prognostication_, _Wks._2. 145. ‘They shall crie out against brokers, as Jeremy did against false prophets.’ _Ibid._ 2. 162. =1. 1. 148 as you make your soone at nights relation.= Cf. Dekker, _Satiromastix_, _Wks._ 1. 187: ‘Shee’l be a late sturrer soone at night sir,’ and _ibid._ 223: By this faire Bride remember soone at night.