ch "banker-outs, stage-players, and men of
base condition had drawn into contempt," by undertaking journeys merely
for gain upon their return. In Ben Jonson's "Every Man Out of His
Humour" (ii. 3) the custom is thus alluded to: "I do intend, this year
of jubilee coming on, to travel; and because I will not altogether go
upon expence, I am determined to put forth some five thousand pound, to
be paid me _five for one_, upon the return of my wife, myself, and my
dog, from the Turk's court at Constantinople. If all, or either of us,
miscarry in the journey, 'tis gone; if we be successful, why then there
will be five and twenty thousand pound to entertain time with."

_Garters._ It was the regular amorous etiquette in the reign of
Elizabeth,[981] "for a man, professing himself deeply in love, to assume
certain outward marks of negligence in his dress, as if too much
occupied by his passion to attend to such trifles, or driven by
despondency to a forgetfulness of all outward appearance." His "garters,
in particular, were not to be tied up." In "As You Like It" (iii. 2),
this custom is described by Rosalind, who tells Orlando: "There is none
of my uncle's marks upon you: he taught me how to know a man in love;
... your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve
unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a
careless desolation." Another fashion which seems to have been common
among the beaux of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was that of wearing garters
across about the knees, an allusion to which we find in "Twelfth Night"
(ii. 5), in the letter which Malvolio reads: "Remember who commended thy
yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered." Douce
quotes from the old comedy of "The Two Angrie Women of Abingdon" (1599),
where a servingman is thus described:

"Hee's a fine neate fellow,
A spruce slave, I warrant ye, he'ele have
His cruell garters crosse about the knee."

[981] Nares's "Glossary," vol. i. p. 350.

In days gone by, when garters were worn in sight, the upper classes wore
very expensive ones, but the lower orders worsted galloon ones. Prince
Henry calls Poins ("1 Henry IV.," ii. 4) a "caddis garter," meaning a
man of mean rank.

_Gaudy Days._ Feast-days in the colleges of our universities are so
called, as they were formerly at the inns-of-court. In "Antony and
Cleopatra" (iii. 13), Antony says: