Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Robes
Our old robes sit easier than our new.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 4. (Macduff to Rosse.)
Such virtue is there in a robe and gown!
Dryden.—Prol. to Troilus and Cressida.