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Ch. 2: Pearl History

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that every one will give such the place. Nay, our gentlewomen are come now to weare them upon their feet, and not at their shoe latchets onely, but also upon their startops and fine buskins, which they garnish all over with Pearle. . For it will not suffice nor serve their turne to carie Pearles about with them, but they must tread upon Pearles, goe among Pearles, and walke, as it were, on a pave­ment of Pearles."
Pearls also decorated the altars in the Roman temples, and the furniture of the houses, while the arms and the trappings of the horses, and of war-chariots shone with them.
Nero offered to Jupiter Capitolinus the first cuttings of his beard in a golden vase decorated with beautiful Pearls.
Caligula wore them in profusion, and had his slippers embroidered with them.
An eye-witness, Philo Judaeus, tells us that the couches upon which the Romans reclined at meal­times were ornamented with tortoise-shell and ivory, and shone with gold and Pearls. He adds further, that upon the couches lay purple coverings em­broidered in gold or Pearls. Nero distributed them lavishly among his favourites, and to such .an
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