The curio : an illustrated monthly magazine (1887)
[New York : R.W. Wright] · leaf 273
sons plajs, where a char-acter called Nobody is introduced, attired in apair of breeches which come up to his neck andhis arms thrust through his pockets. Famous in history was the Devil sign inTemple Bar. Ben Johnson was so fond of thattavern tliat he removed his lodgings to acomb-makers shop… … The Naked Mak. The Naked Boy and The Naked Man signs were intended to satirize the constantchanges in the fashion of the times, the inscrip-tion generally reading : So fickle is our English nation, I would be clothed if I knew the fashion. The idea, however, seems to have been bor-rowed from the…
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