fifty yards of gold lace
Note by H Craik to chapter 2 of Tale of a Tub

This may be taken to refer generally to the unceasing tendency to tag on to the simplicity of primitive Christianity some new figment of vanity and fashion. But to attempt the identification of each feature of this part of the Satire — which is by no means the strongest — with some special deviation from the simplicity of the early order, would be useless refining. The allusions are, in the main, obvious enough.