But in my Fotis, her garments unbrast and unlaste increased her beauty, her haire hanged about her shoulders, and was dispersed abroad upon her Partlet, and in every part of her necke, howbeit the greater part was trussed upon her pole with a lace.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
He heard his name and looked back; had he first recognized the kindly voice he would not have turned, but fled, like a Partlet at sight of the hawk, from Parson Tombs.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable
Again, in the "Nuns' Priest's Tale" the "poure wydwe, somdel stope in age," with her smoky cottage and the humble stock of her yard, are just the subdued and tender background which the poet needs for the mock-chivalric glories of his Chanticleer and Partlet.
"Chaucer and His England"
G. G. Coulton