Betwixt their feather-beds;

In hose and breeches walked by day,

And smoked, and wagged their heads.

No changeful fashions came from France,

The vrouwleins to bewilder;

No broad-brimmed burgher spent for pants

His every other guilder.

In petticoats of linsey-red,

And jackets neatly kept,

The vrouws their knitting-needles sped