“Yes, truly; and I answered that I would not take it off without leave from God. The Demoiselle de Luxembourg[[49]] and the Lady de Beaurevoir[[50]] offered me a woman’s dress, or cloth to make one, telling me to wear it. I answered them that I had not leave from Our Lord, and that it was not yet time.”
“Did Messire Jean de Pressy[[51]] and others at Arras never offer you a woman’s dress?”
“He and many others have oftentimes offered it to me.”
“Do you think that you would have done wrong or committed mortal sin by taking a woman’s dress?”
“I did better to obey and serve my Sovereign Lord, who is God. Had I dared to do it, I would sooner have done it at the request of these ladies than of any other ladies in France, excepting my Queen.”
“When God revealed it to you that you should change your dress, was it by the voice of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, or Saint Margaret?”
“You shall not have anything more at present.”
“When your King first set you to work, and when you had your banner made, did not the men-at-arms and others have their pennons made in the style of yours?”
“It is well to know that the Lords retained their own arms. Some of my companions-in-arms had them made at their pleasure; others not.”
“Of what material did they have them made? Of linen or of cloth?”