The Legend of Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster Book III Chapter 19
They came into an inn, where they were served with supper in an upper chamber. Ulenspiegel, opening the windows, saw from thence a garden in which a comely girl was walking, plump, round bosomed, with golden hair, and clad only in a petticoat, a jacket of white linen, and an apron of black stuff, full of holes.
Chemises and other woman’s linen was bleaching on cords: the girl, still turned towards Ulenspiegel, was taking chemises down from the lines, and putting them back and smiling and still looking at him, and sat down on linen bands, swinging on the two ends knotted together.
Near by Ulenspiegel heard a cock crowing and saw a nurse playing with a child whose face she turned towards a man that was standing, saying:
“Boelkin, look nicely at papa!”
The child wept.
And the pretty girl continued to walk about in the garden, displacing and replacing the linen.
“She is a spy,” said Lamme.
The girl put her hands before her eyes, and smiling between her fingers, looked at Ulenspiegel.
Then pressing up her two breasts with her hands, she let them fall back, and swung again without her feet touching the ground. And the linen, unwinding itself, made her turn like a top, while Ulenspiegel saw her arms, bare to the shoulders, white and round in the pallid sunshine. Turning and smiling, she kept always looking at him. He went out to find her. Lamme followed him. At the hedge of the garden he searched for an opening to pass through, but found none.
The girl, seeing what he was doing, looked again, smiling between her fingers.
Ulenspiegel tried to break through the hedge, while Lamme, holding him back, said to him:
“Do not go there; she is a spy, we shall be burned.”
Then the girl walked about the garden, covering up her face with her apron, and looking through the holes to see if her chance friend would not be coming soon.
Ulenspiegel was going to leap over the hedge with a running jump, but he was prevented by Lamme, who caught hold of him by the leg and made him fall, saying:
“Rope, sword, and gallows, ’tis a spy, do not go there.”
Sitting on the ground, Ulenspiegel struggled against him. The girl cried out, pushing up her head above the hedge:
“Adieu, Messire, may Love keep your Longanimousness hanging!”
And he heard a burst of mocking laughter.
“Ah!” said he, “it is in my ears like a packet of pins!”
Then a door shut noisily.
And he was melancholy.
Lamme said to him, still holding him:
“You are counting over the sweet treasures of beauty thus lost to your shame. ’Tis a spy. You fall in luck when you fall. I am going to burst with laughing.”
Ulenspiegel said not a word, and both got up on their asses once more.