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For riding and sport the ladies wore the hood, and sometimes a broad round hat over it, or the peaked hat. The countrywoman wore an ill-fitting gown with tight sleeves, an apron, and an open hood.
Imagine London in the year of the third great pestilence, 1369. It is October, and the worst of EDWARD THE THIRD 41 the pestilence is over ; John Chichester, the Mayor, is riding through the streets about some great affairs ; many knights and ladies pass by. It is raining hard after the long drought o
...f the summer, but, despite the rain, many citizens are abroad to see the doings in the City, and one may see the bright parti-coloured clothes of the lords and ladies, and here and there, as a cloak is blown back, a glimpse of rich-patterned cloth of gold.
Perhaps WiU Langland — Long Will — a gaunt man of thirty-seven, is brushing past a young man of twenty-nine, Chaucer, going to his work.
Silk dresses and frieze gowns, velvet and home- spun, hurry along as the rain falls more heavily, and after a while the street becomes quite deserted.


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