And not in ribbons on a shoe;
Now ribbon-roses take such place,
That garden roses want their grace."
—"Friar Bacon's Prophesie." 1604.
"I like," says Evelyn, "the boucle better than the formal rose."—Tyrannus, or the Mode.
This proclamation is dated from "our Honour of Hampton Court, 30th April, 1635."—Rymer's Fœdera. T. 19, p. 690.
When Anne of Austria was suspected of secret correspondence with Spain and England, Richelieu sent the Chancellor to question the Abbess of the Val-de-Grâce with respect to the casket which had been secretly brought into the monastery. The Abbess (Vie de la Mère d'Arbouse) declared that this same casket came from the Queen of England, and that it only contained lace, ribbons, and other trimmings of English fashion, sent by Henrietta Maria as a present to the Queen.—Galerie de l'Ancienne Cour. 1791.