Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 220
satirists of the time. John de Meun, who com-pleted The Romaunt ofthe Rose, observes thatthese horns appear to bedesigned to wound the men,and adds : I know notwhether they call gibbets orcorbels that which sustainstheir horns, which they con-sider so fine, but I venture tosay that St. Elizabeth is… … 214 CHATS ON COSTUME Cornetes, from a MS. in the Bibliotheque Royale atParis, of the beginning of the fourteenth century. Inthis poem it appears that the Bishop of Paris hadpreached a sermon directed against extravagance inwomens dress, their horns and the bareness of theirnecks. If we do not get…
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