Og glowing carpets and of color'd prints;
The weary eye saw every object shine,

And all was costly, fanciful and fine. (1)

Finally we are told of a more pretentious house,

He spake of galleries long and pictures tall,

The handsome parlours, the prodigeous hall;

The busts, the statues, and the floors of stone,
The storied arras, and the vast saloon,

In which was placed an Indian chest and screen,

With figures such as he had never seen. (2)

Costumes.

The people who lived in these houses Crabbe deseri scribes in their appropriate costumes. Daniel the footman stands before us,

Blue was his coat, unsoiled by spot or stain,

His hose was silk, his shoes of Spanish grain;
A silver knot his breadth of shoulder bore;

A diamond buckle blazed his breast before
Rings on his fingers shone,; his milkwhite hand

(1) Crabbe IV. 197.

(2) Ibid. VII. 213. Note: Detailed descriptions of such a house may be found in Silford Hall; or the Happy Day. Posthumous Tales ICrabbe VIII

Could pick-tooth ease, ard box for snuff command;

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And thus, with clouded cane, and fop complete,

He stalked the jest and glory of the street. (1)

We see the Steward,

He was a man of riches, bluff and big,

With clean brown broadcloth, and with white cut wig:

He bore a cane of price with riband tied,

And a fat spaniel waddled at his side.(2)

In all her glory the spinster spinster steps from Crabbe's pages, In the dear fashions of her youth she dressed,

A pea-green Joseph was her favorite vest;

Erect she stood, she walk'd with stately mien,

lean. (3)

Tight was her length of stays and she was tall and In her closet were, Silks beyond price, so rich, they'd stand alone, And diamonds blazed on the buckled zone;

Rows of rare pearls by curious workmen set,

And bracelets fair in box of glossy jet;

Bright polish'd amber precious from its age,

Or forms the fairest fancy could devise:

(1) Crabbe II. 187.

(2) Ibid. VII. 62. (3) Ibid.11.212

Her drawers of cedar, shut with secret spring,
Conceal'd the watch of gold and rubied rings.(1)

The mayor braced his short stout person

In good brown broadcloth, edged with two inch lace,
When in his seat; and still the coat seems new,
Preserved by common use of seamen's blue.(2)

The merchant's dress became him, it was neat and
The colour purple, and without a stain; (3)

plain,

The simple old soul turned fop wore a coat that

blazed with broad polished buttons,

And just beneath the watch's trinkets shone,

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The crimson waistcoat and the silen hose,

Rank'd the lean man among the Borough' beaux. (4)

The Quaker in a light drab uniformly dressed,

A hat with ample verge his brows o'er spread,
And his brown locks curl'd graceful on his head. (5)

The sailor dressed in his Sunday best is thus de

scribed:

(1) Crabbe II. 212. (2) Ibid. III. 105. (3)V. 164. (5) Ibid. IV. 270.

(4) Ibid. IV. 25-6.