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CHAPTER XIV. Batts and Broags, Boots and Shoes

Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) · Alice Morse Earle — chapter 28 of 29 · ~55 words · public domain

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BATTS AND BROAGS, BOOTS AND SHOES

“By my Faith! Master Inkpen, thou hast put thy foot in it! Tis a pretty subject and a strange one, and a vast one, but we’ll leave it never a sole to stand on. The proverb hath ‘There’s naught like leather,’ but my Lady answers ‘Save silk:’”

—Old Play.

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