It is written by Aristotle that when Cyrus had overcome the Lydians, that were a warlike nation, and devised to bring them to a more peaceable life, he changed their apparel and music, and instead of their short warlike coat, clothed them in long garments like women, and instead of their warlike music, appointed to them certain lascivious lays and loose gigs, by which in short space their minds were so mollified and abated that they forgot their former fierceness and became most tender and effeminate, whereby it appeareth that there is not a little in the garment to the fashioning of the mind and conditions.
Edmund Spenser
View of the Present State of Ireland (1596)
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