"A vest as admir'd Voltiger had on, Which from this island's foes his grandsire won; Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Oblig'd to triumph in this legacy."
— Clothing

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Edward Howard, The British Princes (London: H. Herringman, 1669), p. 96. See also Boswell, Life of Johnson (1769). European Mag., April, 1792. Steele, in the Spectator. The lines are thought to be a forgery of William Henry Ireland's.