Perfumes were much in fashion, and Stubbes’ _Anatomy_ has a great deal to say on the subject. We hear of perfumed jerkins in Marston’s _Malcontent_ (_Wks._ 1. 314) and in _Cynthia’s Revels_ (_Wks._ 2. 325). Spanish perfume for gloves is spoken of in the latter play (p. 328) and in the _Alchemist_ (_Wks._ 4. 131) ‘your Spanish titillation in a glove’ is declared to be the best perfume. =4. 4. 77, 8 The Guardo-duennas, such a little old man,= =As this.= Minsheu gives the definition: ‘Escudero, m. An Esquire, a Seruingman that waits on a Ladie or Gentlewoman, in Spaine neuer but old men and gray beards.’ =4. 4. 81 flat spred, as an Vmbrella.= The umbrella of the seventeenth century seems to have been used exclusively to protect the face from the sun. Blount, _Glossographia_, 1670, gives: ‘_Umbrello_ (Ital. Ombrella), a fashion of round and broad Fans, wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little shadow, Fan, or other thing wherewith women guard their faces from the sun.’ It was apparently not in use in England when Coryat published his _Crudities_, which contains the following description (1. 135): ‘Also many of them doe carry other fine things of a far greater price, that will cost at the least a duckat, which they commonly call in the Italian tongue _vmbrellaes_, that is, things that minister shadow unto them for shelter against the scorching heate of the sunne. These are made of leather something answerable to the forme of a little cannopy, & hooped in the inside with diuers little wooden hoopes that extend the _vmbrella_ in a pretty large compasse.’ ‘As a defense from rain or snow it was not used in western Europe till early in the eighteenth century.’--_CD._ =4. 4. 82 Her hoope.= A form of the farthingale (fr. Sp. _Verdugal_) was worn in France, Spain, and Italy, and in England as early as 1545. It gradually increased in size, and Elizabeth’s farthingale was enormous. The aptness of the comparison can be appreciated by reading Coryat’s description of the umbrella above. =4. 4. 87 An Escudero.= See note 4. 4. 77, 8. =4. 4. 97 If no body should loue mee, but my poore husband.= Cf. _Poetaster_, _Wks._ 2. 444: ‘Methinks a body’s husband does not so well at court; a body’s friend, or so--but, husband! ’tis like your clog to your marmoset,’ etc. =4. 4. 134 your Gentleman-vsher.= ‘Gentleman-Usher. Originally a state-officer, attendant upon queens, and other persons of high rank, as, in Henry VIII, Griffith is gentleman-usher to Queen Catherine; afterwards a private affectation of state, assumed by persons of distinction, or those who pretended to be so, and particularly ladies. He was then only a sort of upper servant, out of livery, whose office was to hand his lady to her coach, and to walk before her bare-headed, though in later times she leaned upon his arm.’--Nares.