but them, hear nothing but them. Is it not they who walk the
streets, fill up Parliament-, coffee-, play-, bawdy-houses. It is
true, indeed, that these animals, which are vulgarly called suits of
clothes or dresses, do according to certain compositions receive
different appellations. If one of them be trimmed up with a gold
chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is
called a Lord Mayor; if certain ermines and furs be placed in a
certain position, we style them a judge, and so an apt conjunction
of lawn and black satin we entitle a Bishop.

Others of these professors, though agreeing in the main system, were
yet more refined upon certain branches of it; and held that man was
an animal compounded of two dresses, the natural and the celestial
suit, which were the body and the soul; that the soul was the
outward, and the body the inward clothing; that the latter was ex
traduce, but the former of daily creation and circumfusion. This
last they proved by Scripture, because in them we live, and move,
and have our being: as likewise by philosophy, because they are all
in all, and all in every part. Besides, said they, separate these
two, and you will find the body to be only a senseless unsavoury
carcass. By all which it is manifest that the outward dress must
needs be the soul.

To this system of religion were tagged several subaltern doctrines,
which were entertained with great vogue; as particularly the
faculties of the mind were deduced by the learned among them in this
manner: embroidery was sheer wit, gold fringe was agreeable
conversation, gold lace was repartee, a huge long periwig was
humour, and a coat full of powder was very good raillery. All which
required abundance of finesse and delicatesse to manage with