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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: brocaded velvet embroidered with golden thread, a black velvet
hood-cap rolled like a turban and with a jewel in the front, a
pair of crimson hose, and a pair of black velvet shoes trimmed
and stitched with gold-thread. Myles had never worn such splendid
clothes in his life before, and he could not but feel that they
became him well.
"Sir," said he, as he looked down at himself, "sure it is not
lawful for me to wear such clothes as these."
In those days there was a law, known as a sumptuary law, which
regulated by statute the clothes that each class of people were
privileged to wear. It was, as Myles said, against the law for
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