Statute-caps, woollen caps, which, by Act of Parliament in 1571, the citizens were enjoined to wear on holydays: “better wits have worn plain s.” LLL V, 2, 281 (== better wits may be found among the citizens).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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