Elizabethan Age Costumes

What did MALE servants wear in the Elizabethan Age?
I need to design a costume for my part in Romeo and Juliet. I’ll be Balthazar and I have no idea what he would wear.
If someone could show me a picture or a description as soon as possible, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
— Oh yeah, it doesn’t have to be perfect, just close as you can manage, thanks again.
My recollection is knickers, shirts and vests. I’ll look for some images and amend my answer if I find any good ones.
Edit: This seems like a good site: http://www.elizabethancostume.net/
The Costumes of Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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Elizabethan England (History of Fashion and Costume) $31.50 … |
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Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet $35.00 In a scuffed-up studio, a veteran dancer transmits the magic of an eighty-year-old ballet to a performer barely past drinking age. In a converted barn, an indomitable teacher creates ballerinas as she has for more than half a century. In a monastic mirrored room, dancers from as near as New Jersey and as far as Mongolia learn works as old as the nineteenth century and as new as this morning. … |
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The Wish List $2.93 The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large–retrace Odysseus’ route around the Mediterranean–and wishes small–find a genuine arrowhead. There are a… |
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Elizabeth – The Golden Age (Widescreen Edition) $3.85 Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen. Already overwhelmed by the threat of a Spanish invasion and betrayal within her family, things get even more complicated when Sir Walter Raleigh steps in and steals her heart. 2007/color/115 min/PG-13/widescreen…. |
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