Show before the age of buttons persons who read much of historic romance cannot tail fail to recognize the request truss my points which has been used by every writer of english from the time of chaucer perhaps ever everyone jone who read the phrase did not know that it meant in common parlance lace up my clothes but that Is what it did mean and the reason it ceased to be used in actual conversation resulted from the invention of the button and the passing away of the custom of fasten ing the clothes by lacing |