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without Hatbands, broad Leather girdles with steel buckles, narrow Breeches with long-wasted Doublets and hanging-sleeves, to be a la mode, as well as in Madrid. And I found all the great Ladies here to go like the Donnas of Spain in Guardinfantas, that is, in horrible overgrown Fartingals of whalebone, which being put about the waste of the Lady, and full as broad on both sides as she can reach with her hands, bear out her Coats in such a huffing manner, that she appears to be as broad as long. So that the men here with their little close Breeches, looked like Tumblers that leap through the houps: and the women like those that danced anciently the Hobby-horse in country Mummings. Two of these Ladies meeting one another in these narrow streets, make as great an Embarras, as two Carts of Hay do upon London Bridge: and I have seen their Ladiships strangely puzzled how to juggle themselves into a narrow Sedan, or Littar: indeed half of my Lady hangs out. For mypart