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“of eight shillings an ell,”
1 HENRY IV., iii. 3. 70.
Shakespeare, of course, was thinking of the price of shirts in his own time:
according to Stubbes, in the second edition of his Anatomy of
Abuses, 1583, some shirts cost five pounds, or even ten pounds each.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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