...skirt or petticoat. The hood and farthingale were emblems of gentility. Cf. Patient Grissil 4. 3 : 'Rice. No, sweet madam, you are my lady. A man is...head, and you are my lady, though you want a hood.' In Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday (3. 4), after Simon Eyre has been made sheriff of London, his humbly-born...

...man is either a fool or a physician after thirty years of age. " A man is a lion in his own cause. A man is a man, though he have but a hose on his head. CL. A man is a man, though he have never a cap to his crown. A man is little the better for liking...

...since it were fitter for me to use a distaff than a sword?" " No more of that, sir," said Sancho ; " a man is a man, though he have but a hose on his head. To-day for thee, and to-morrow for me ; and for these thumps and encounters there is no heed to be...

...were fitter for mee to CHAPTER use a distaffe than a sword? No more of that, Sir, said LXV Sancho : a man is a man, though he have but a hose on Who the his head. To day for thee, and to morrow for me: and for these thumps and encounters there...

...purse] ' A line out of a ballad % Hazlitt. Rather, I thmk, a modification of some such phrase as ' a man is a man, though he have but a hose on his head ' ; cf. i. 307. 10. 1023. Proselite] Apparently used in the limited sense of a convert to Judaism....

...purse] 'A line out of a ballad', Hazlitt. Rather, I think, a modification of some such phrase as ' a man is a man, though he have but a hose on his head'; cf. i. 307. 10. 1023. Proselite] Apparently used in the limited sense of a convert to Judaism. 1026....