'I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.'

'I ought to overrule this. But, yes, it could help velocitize things,' White replied.

Over the duke’s head is a daïs or “dosseret” of state. “As for the fashion of a dosseret”, says our lady, “seeing that many people don’t know what one is, a dosseret should be as wide as three widths of cloth of gold and made just like the canopy of a bed. A dosseret behind and above a dresser must not rise above it more than a quarter or half an ell, and it has flounce and fringe like the canopy of a bed. The part behind the dresser is bordered from top to bottom on both sides with a different material from the centre, and the border should be about a quarter of the whole width, and the same for the canopy.” The dosseret in the Countess of Charolois’s chamber was of cloth of gold “cramoisy”, bordered with black velvet, and the velvet was embroidered in fine gold with the device of Duke Philip the Good, which was a flint and steel.

Yet his Lordship would find this rate of proportion […] likewise in all plants, in the disposition of their leaves, for which ordering he would make a name, that is, from the Greek, phyllotaxis.