Note 19 — Chapter IX · REIGN OF FRANCIS I. 1515 TO 1545.
Frances Cashel Hoey translation
“The large vertugadin is common to all Frenchwomen; The bourgeoises wear it freely now, Just the same as the great ladies, if it be not That the bourgeoise is content with a smaller one; For the great ladies are not satisfied With a vertugadin less than five yards wide.”