two o'clock
Myles flung his arm around his friend 's neck , and kissed him upon the cheek . `` Thou shalt have thy will , '' said he ; `` but whether knight or squire , thou art ever mine own true friend . '' Then they went slowly back together , hand in hand , to the castle world again . At two o'clock Myles went to Lord George 's apartments , and there his friend and patron dressed him out in a costume better fitted for the ceremony of presentation -- a fur-trimmed jacket of green 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 .