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At 12:44 PM 2/16/00 -0500, Alan Baragona wrote: >Well, the Norwich inventory does pair "apis skinns" with an "angel cote," but I >took it to be a contrast. Perhaps not. That's a very interesting possibility. > >Alan B. > I tend to agree with Larry that these over-hose might have been used to give the angel's legs a shaggy appearance. It doesn't seem likely that this entry contains a contrast of costume items. If one looks at David Galloway's _REED: Norwich, 1540-1642_, one will find a number of other pairings of cotes and hose in the same 1565 (I think) inventory for the Grocers, which seems to suggest these were sets of costume pieces. Gloria Betcher *************************** Dept. of English Iowa State University 206 Ross Hall Ames, IA 50011 (515) 294-3026 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher