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CHARLES II. 303 With silver; diamond buckles too, For garters, and as rich for shoe. Twice twelve day smocks of Holland fine, With cambric sleeves rich Point to joyn (For she despises Colbertine) ; Twelve more for night, all Flanders lac’d, Or else she’ll think herself disgrac'd. The same her night gown must adorn, With two Point waistcoats for the morn ; Of pocket mouchoirs, nose to drain, A dozen laegd, a dozen plain; Three night gowns of rich Indian stuff; Four cushion-cloths are scarce enough Of Point and Flanders,” 17 &c. It is difficult now to ascertain what description of lace was that styled Colbertine. 18 It is constantly alluded to by the writers of the period. Handle Holme (1088) styles it, “ A kind of open lace with a square grounding.” 19 Evelyn himself, in his “Fop’s Dic tionary” (1690), gives, “Colbertine, a lace resembling net-work of the fabric of Monsieur Colbert, superintendent of the French King’s manufactures and the “ Ladies’ Dictionary,” 1694, repeats his definition. This is more incomprehensible still, point d’Alencjon being the lace that can be specially styled of “ the fabric ” of Colbert, and Colbertine appears to have been a coarse production. 20 Swift talks of knowing “ The difference between Rich Flanders lace and Colbcrteen.” 21 Congreve makes Lady Westport say— 22 “ Go hang out an old Frisonier gorget with a yard of yellow Colberteen.” And a traveller, in 1691, 23 speaking of Paris, writes :—“ You shall see here the finer sort of people flaunting it in tawdry gauze or Colbertine, a parcel of coarse staring ribbons; but ten of their holyday habits shall not amount to what a citizen’s wife of London wears on her head every day.” 17 “ Tyrannus, or the Mode,” 1661. 18 It is written Colberteen, Colbertain, Golbertain, Colbertine. 13 Colberteen, a lace resembling net work, being of the manufacture of M. Colbert, a French statesman. 20 A writer, in “ Notes and Queries,” says: <■ I recollect this lace worn as a ruffle fifty years ago. The ground was square and coarse, it had a fine edge, with a round mesh, on which the pattern was woven. It was an inferior lace and in every-day wear.” 21 “ Cadenus and Vanessa.” See also Young, p. 111. 22 “ Way of the World.” 23 11 Six Weeks in France,” 1691.