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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter tit How a young Gallant should warm himself by the fire; how attire himself, 'The description of a Mans Head: the praise of Lang Hair. UT if, as it often happens unless the year catch the sweating sickness, the morning, like charity waxing cold, thrust his frosty fingers into thy bosom, pinching thee black and blue with her nails made of ice, like an invisible goblin ; so that thy teeth, as if thou wert singing pricksong, stand coldly quavering in thy head, and leap up and down like the nimble jacks of a pair of virginals; be then as swift as a whirlwind, and as boisterous in tossing all thy clothes in a rude heap together; with which bundle filling thine arms, step bravely forth, crying: ' Room! What a coil keep you about the fire!' The more are set round about it, the more is thy commendation, if thou either bluntly ridest over their shoulders, or tumblest aside their stools to creep into the chimney corner: there toast thy body till thy scorched shin be speckled all over, being stained with more motley colours than are to be seen on the right side of the rainbow. Neither shall it be fit for the state of thy health to put on thy apparel, till, by sitting in that hothouse of the chimney, thou feelest the fat dew of thy body, like basting, run trickling down thy sides; for by that means thou mayst lawfully boast, that thou livest by the sweat of thy brows. As for thy stockings and shoes; so wear them, that all men may point at thee, and make thee famous by that glorious name of a malcontent. Or, if thy quicksilver can run so far on thy errand as to fetch thee boots out of St. Martin's, let it be thy prudence to have the tops of them wide as the mouth of a wallet, and those with fringed boot hose over them to hang down to thy ankles. Doves are accounted innoce...
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