A GENTLEMAN’S FASHION.

In the reign of Henry VII. sir Philip Calthrope, a Norfolk knight, sent

as much cloth, of fine French tauney, as would make him a gown, to a

tailor in Norwich. It happened one John Drakes, a shoemaker, coming into

the shop, liked it so well, that he went and bought of the same as much

for himself, enjoining the tailor to make it of the same fashion. The

knight was informed of this, and therefore commanded the tailor to cut

his gown as full of holes as his sheers could make. John Drakes’s was

made “of the same fashion,” but he vowed he never would be of the

_gentleman’s_ fashion again.

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