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...shoes and slippers were worn shaped after the right and left foot*. Shakspeare describes his smith as Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet. The introduction of gloves has already been incidentally mentioned ; but perfumed and embroidered gloves...

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...Staring on Priam's wounds with her old eyes, Which bleeding under Pyrrhus' proud foot lies. Poems. 11 I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus, The whilst...Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattled and rank'd in Kent : Another lean unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's...

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