CHAPTER XIV

BATTS AND BROAGS, BOOTS AND SHOES

_“By my Faith! Master Inkpen, thou hast put thy foot in it! Tis a

pretty subject and a strange one, and a vast one, but we’ll leave it

never a sole to stand on. The proverb hath ‘There’s naught like

leather,’ but my Lady answers ‘Save silk:’”_

—Old Play.

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