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 238 Hijiory of Domejiic Manners at night that ilie was anxious to fmilli a piece of linen cloth fhe was weaving : — Sire,fet-ellc, il me faut trahner A une toile que je fuh. And in another fabliau, that of "Guillaume au Faucon,"a young "bacheler" No. 168. EmbroUe No. 169. ^i Lady Carding. entering fuddenly the chamber of the ladies, finds them all occupied m embroidering a piece of filk with the enfigns of the lord of the caftle. Embroidery, indeed, was a favourite occupation : a lady thus employed No. 170. A Lady Spinning. is reprefented in our cut No. 168, taken from a richly illuminated manufcript of the fourteenth century, in the Britilli Mufeum (MS. Reg. 2 B. vii.) The ladies, too, not only made up the cloths into dreffes and articles