“What do you say on the subject of the female attire which is offered to you, to go and hear Mass?”
“I will not take it yet, until it shall please Our Lord. And if it should happen that I should be brought to judgment, [and that I have to divest myself in Court,][[84]] I beseech the lords of the Church to do me the grace to allow me a woman’s smock and a hood for my head; I would rather die than revoke what God has made me do; and I believe firmly that God will not allow it to come to pass that I should be brought so low that I may not soon have succour from Him, and by miracle.”
“As you say that you bear a man’s dress by the command of God, why do you ask for a woman’s smock at the point of death?”
“It will be enough for me if it be long.”
“Did your Godmother who saw the fairies pass as a wise woman?”
“She was held and considered a good and honest woman, neither divineress nor sorceress.”
“You said you would take a woman’s dress, that you might be let go: would this please God?”
“If I had leave to go in woman’s dress, I should soon put myself back in man’s dress and do what God has commanded me: I have already told you so. For nothing in the world will I swear not to arm myself and put on a man’s dress; I must obey the orders of Our Lord.”
“What age and what dress had Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret?”
“You have had such answers as you will have from me, and none others shall you have: I have told you what I know of it for certain.”