Sir Thomas More

In his Utopia his law is that the young people are to see each other stark-naked before marriage. Sir William Roper, of Eltham in Kent, came one morning, pretty early, to my Lord, with a proposal to marry one of his daughters. My Lord's daughters were then both together in bed in a truckle-bed in their father's chamber asleep. He carries Sir William into the chamber and takes the sheet by the corner and suddenly whipps it off. They laid on their backs, and their smocks up as hight as their armpit.