But what went you out for to see?.... If not his air and action, what was it? was it his apparel and dress? was it to see a man clothed in soft raiment? If this was the case, their labour was in vain, and they had their walk for nothing; for John was clothed with camels' hair, rough and undressed, and was girt with a leathern girdle; there was nothing in his person, mien, and garb, that was attractive: they which are gorgeously, apparelled; or richly clothed, as John was not: and live delicately; in the most elegant manner, and on the richest dainties, as John did not, his food being locusts and wild honey: are in kings' courts; and not in a wilderness, where John; came preaching.