16th Century Quotes Regarding Hats
Hamlet
Guildenstern - Happy in that we are not over-happy.
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. "
Claudius- A very riband in the cap of youth-
Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds, 3220
Importing health and graveness.
Henri IV part I
Falstaff: Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to
worn in my cap than to wait at my heels.
Henri V
Williams: This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come
to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'
by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.
Henri V: Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,
lest he knock that about yours.
Henri VI
Duke of Exeter: What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,
And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,
'If once he come to be a cardinal,
He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'
Guildenstern - Happy in that we are not over-happy.
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. "
Claudius- A very riband in the cap of youth-
Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds, 3220
Importing health and graveness.
Henri IV part I
Falstaff: Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to
worn in my cap than to wait at my heels.
Henri V
Williams: This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come
to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'
by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.
Henri V: Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,
lest he knock that about yours.
Henri VI
Duke of Exeter: What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,
And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,
'If once he come to be a cardinal,
He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'
16th century Hatters' guilds, apprenticeships, and edicts about hats
Edicts:
From http://livingelizabethan.weebly.com/hats--caps.html
In 1571 a statute called An Act for the Continuance of the Making of Caps determined that “… all [males] above the age of six years except some of certain state and condition,
shall wear upon the Sabbath and Holydays, one cap of wool knit, thicked [felted
or fulled] and dressed in England, upon the forefeiture of 3s 4d …”
16th century Hatter's Guild information
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