“Medio de donte leporum
  Surgit amari aliquid.”

He seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a gallant bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly.

“1619.

“My desperate quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas unto New Year’s Day.

5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a
   doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard, 4L. 4s.
5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, to
   make hose cassocke and cloake [sic] 14L.
7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per yard, 9L. 22 ounces of blacke galloune lace 2L. 15s.  Taffaty to line the doublett 17s. 5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse 1L. 4s. pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of ye
   copell 8s.
ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and scarfe, 2L. 10s. 5 dozen of small buttons 1s. 8d.  Stickinge and sowing silke 14s. ffor cuttinge ye scallops 2s. holland to line the hose 5s. 6d.  Dutch bays for the hose 4s. 6d.  Pocketts to ye hose 10d. 2 dozen of checker riband pointes 12s. drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake 5s. canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett 3s. 6d. ffor makinge ye doublett and hose 18s. making ye copell 1L. 8s. making ye cloake 9s.

Sum of this suite 40L. 2s.”

I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending these extracts.  If likely to supply useful “notes” to your readers, they shall have, in some future number, the remainder of the bridegroom’s wardrobe.  In whatever niggardly array the bride came to her lord’s arms, he, at {131} least, was pranked and decked in all the apparel of a young gallant, an exquisite of the first water, for this was only one of several rich suits which he provided for his marriage outfit; and then follows a list of costly gloves and presents, and all the lavish outlay of this his “desperate quarter.”

In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you shall be furnished with a list of other and better objects of expenditure from this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as Clarendon depicts him, the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of better fame than is yet been his lot to acquire.