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ladies, wherof two were apparelled in crimsin sattin and purple, embrodered withgold, and by viniets ran floure delices of gold, with marvellous rich and strangetiers on their heads. Then two ladies in crimsin and purple, made like long slops,embrodered and fret with gold, after antike fashion: and ouer that garment was ashort garment, of cloth of gold, scant to the knee, fashioned like a tabard all ouer,with double rolles, all of flat gold of damaske, fret with frised gold; and on theirheads skarfs and wrappers of damaske gold, with flat pipes, that strange it was tobehold. The other two ladies were in kirtels of crimsin and purple sattin, em-brodered with a viniet of pomgranats of gold, all the garments cut compasse wise,having but demie sleeves, naked down from the elbowes, and ouer their garmentswere botches of pleasants, rolled with crimsin velvet, and set with letters of gold, likecharacts, their heads rolled in pleasants and tipets like the Aegyptians, embroderedwith gold. Their faces, necks, armes, and hands, couered in fine pleasants blacke:some call it Lumbardines, which is maruellous thin; so that the same ladies seemedto be Nigers or blacke Mores. Of these foresaid six ladies, the ladie Marie, sistervnto the king, was one.”

At a pageant in the same year, he says there “ were six ladies, all apparelled inwhite and greene, set and embrodered full of and 3£fc., of gold, knit togither withlaces of gold of damaske, and all their garments were replenished with glitteringspangels, gilt ouer; on their heads were bonets, all opened at the foure quarters,ouerfrised with flat gold of damaske, the orrellets were of rolles, wreathed on lampasdoucke; the fassis of their head set full of new deuised fashions.”

In 1515 he describes a maske where “ there were foure ladies in gowns, after thefashion of Sauoie, of blew veluet, lined with cloth of gold, the veluet all cut, andmantels like tipets, knit togither, all of silver; and on their heads bonets of burnedgold.” And another maske, in 1519, where thirty-six persons danced, “ in one suteof fine greene sattin, all couered ouer with cloth of gold, vnder tied togither withlaces of gold, with long haire of white gold.”

After a comedie, in 1520, “ there entered into the chamber eight ladies in blackeveluet, bordered about with gold, with hoopes from the wast downeward, and sleeuesruffed and plited at the elbow, and plaine in the middest, full of cuts, plucked out ateuerie cut with fine camerike, and tired like the Aegyptians verie richlie.”

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