that smooth glittering devil

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'The most expensive fabrics were silks, which had to be imported, mainly from Italy. . . . Lucifer's prologue to Thomas Middleton's play The Black Book (1604) talks of 'that smooth glittering devil satin, and that old reveller velvet.''

'Aileen Ribeiro, Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England, 2005.

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