Who but beleeves That Doublets with stuft bellies and big sleeves And those Trunk-hose which now our life doth scorne Were all in fashion and with custome worne?

'Trunk-hose' wide breeches stuffed with wool, &c. I can make nothing of this verse: the obscurity is not at all removed by putting a comma after 'rules.'

For my part I expect to see the use of trunk-hose and buttered ale ascribed to the influence of the feudal system.'

Shakespear was early up, and went so drest As for those dawning houres he knew was best; But when the Sun shone forth, You Two thought fit To weare just Robes, and leave off Trunk-hose-Wit.

Trewe ( = honest) Tripennies Trondling Trouses True man Trundle bed Trunk-hose Tub-hunter ( = parasite) Turnops Two Noble Ladyes.

Between the door and the foot of the staircase, in the warm glow of an unseen fire, stood a small heavily-carved oak table, with Jacobean legs, like stuffed trunk-hose.

Some wore old leather jerkins and steel skirts; some, peascod doublets of Elizabeth's time, and trunk-hose that had covered many a limb besides their own; others, slops and galligaskins; while the poorer sort were robed in rusty gowns of tuft-mockado or taffeta, once guarded with velvet or lined with skins, but now tattered and threadbare.

Next, he tweaked my nose, and as I turned round to avoid him, he applied his footyes, his footto the back of my trunk-hose; and well was it that the hose were stoutly wadded and quilted.