Note 612 — Chapter XI
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Queen Mary only knotted fringes. Bishop Burnett says: “It was strange to see a queen work so many hours a day.” Sir E. Sedley, in his epigram on the “Royal Knotter,” says,—
“Who, when she rides in coach abroad, Is always knotting threads.”
Probably it was the fashion, as Madame de Maintenon always worked during her drives with the king, which doubtless prevented her dying of ennui!