They much commend however the industry and careful habits of the German and Netherland women, who do the work which in England devolves upon the men.

Hence, England is called the paradise of married women, for the unmarried girls are kept much more strictly than upon the continent.

The women are, handsome, white, dressy, modest; although they go freely about the streets without bonnet, hood, or veil; but lately learned to cover their faces with a silken mask or vizard with a plumage of feathers, for they change their fashions every year, to the astonishment of many." Paul Hentzner, a tourist from Germany at precisely the same epoch, touches with equal minuteness on English characteristics.

It may be observed, that, with some discrepancies, there is also much similarity, in the views of the two critics.
"The English," says the whimsical Paul, are serious, like the Germans, lovers of show, liking to be followed, wherever they go, by troops of servants, who wear their master's arms, in silver, fastened to their left sleeves, and are justly ridiculed for wearing tails hanging down their backs.

They excel in dancing and music, for they are active and lively, although they are of thicker build than the Germans.