Note 278 — Chapter VI · CONVERSATION
George Herbert Ely translation
Anne of Laval, for example, writes to her sister: “J’ay entendu que Monsieur mon frère ce vante que à son retour j’auré ung petit neveu. Plust a Dieu qui fust ainsi, d’aussi bon cueur que je le desire. L’espérance que j’en ay me faict vous envoyer des poix en gousse, qui est viande de femme grosse.”
[I have heard that my brother is boasting that on his return I shall have a little nephew. God grant it may be so, of as good heart as I desire it. The hope I have induces me to send you some peas in the pod, which is a food for pregnant women.]