As the privacy of the chamber had become greater, it seems now to have been much less common in private mansions for several people to sleep in the same room, which appears more rarely to have had more than one bed. But a bed of a new construction had now come into use, called a truckle or trundle bed. This was a smaller bed which rolled under the larger bed, and was designed usually for a valet, or servant. The illuminations in the manuscript of the romance of the “Comte d’Artois,” already quoted more than once, furnish us with the early example of a truckle-bed represented in our cut No. 260. The count d’Artois lies in the bed under the canopy, while the truckle-bed is occupied by his valet (in this case, his wife in disguise). The truckle-bed is more frequently mentioned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Every reader will remember the speech of mine host of the Garter, in the “Merry Wives of Windsor” (act iv. sc. 5), who says of Falstaff’s room, “There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, his standing bed and truckle-bed.” It was the place allotted to the squire, when accompanying the knight on “adventures.” So in Hudibras (part ii. canto ii.)-- _When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking_ _’Twixt sleeping kept all night and waking,_ _Began to rub his drowsy eyes,_ _And from his couch prepared to rise,_ _Resolving to dispatch the deed_ _He vow’d to do, with trusty speed;_ _But first, with knocking loud and bawling,_ _He roused the squire, in truckle lolling._ In the English universities, the master-of-arts had his pupil to sleep in his truckle-bed. [Illustration: _No. 261. A Bedroom Scene._]