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* * * But one note , by the way , do I especially woo you to , the neglect of which makes many of our gallants cheap and ordinary , that by no means you be seen above four times ; but in the fifth make yourself away , either in some of the semsters ' shops , the new tobacco office , or among the booksellers , where , if you can not read , exercise your smoke , and enquire who has writ against this divine weed . * * * After dinner you may appear again , having translated yourself out of you English cloth into a light Turkey grogram , if you have that happiness of shifting ; and then be seen for a turn or two to correct your teeth with some quill or silver instrument , and to cleanse your gums with a wrought handkerchief ; it skills not whether you dined or no ; that is best known to your stomach ; or in what place you dined ; though it were with cheese of your own mother 's making , in your chamber or study . * * * If , by chance , you either encounter , or aloof off throw your inquisitive eye upon any knight or squire , being your familiar , salute him , not by his name , Sir such a one , or so ; but call him Ned , or Jack , etc. . This will set off your estimation with great men ; and if , though there be a dozen companies between you , 't is the better , he call aloud to you , for that is most genteel , to know where he shall find you at two o'clock ; tell him at such an ordinary , or such ; and be sure to name those that are dearest , and whither none but your gallants resort . '' -LSB- 53 -RSB- With all the luxury of furniture and dress , with all the new elegance and ceremony of court life , there naturally remained much disorder , violence , and coarseness throughout the social system . Although the laws concerning the maintenance of order in the streets were strict , forbidding any one even to `` blowe any horne in the night , or whistle after the hour of nyne of the clock in the night , '' yet they were not effectively enforced . A member of the House of Commons described a Justice of the Peace as an animal , who for half a dozen of chickens would dispense with a dozen penal laws -LSB- 54 -RSB- ; and Gilbert Talbot spoke of two serious street affrays , which he described in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury as `` trifling matters . ''