And the foure gospellores,
Syttyng on pyllores;
Hend[1], herkeneth and heres,
Gyf hyt be ȝoure wyll.
Austyn and Gregory,
Jerome and Ambrose,
Thus the foure doctores
Lystened than tylle.
Ther was purtred[2] in ston
The fylesoferes everychon,
The story of Absolon,
That lykyd full ylle;
With an orrelegge[3] one hyȝth
To rynge the ours at nyȝth.
To waken Myldore the bryȝth,
With bellus to knylle.
Square wydowes of glas,
The rechest that ever was,
Tho moyneles[4] was off bras,
Made with menne handes;
Alle the walles of geete[5],
With gaye gablettes[6] and grete,
Kyngges syttyng in their sete
Out of sure[7] londes.
Grete Charles with the crounne,
Syre Godfray the Boyloune,
And Arthur the Bretoune,
With here bryȝt brondes[8].
The floure was paned[9] overal
With a clere crystal,
And overe keveryd[10] with a pal[11].
Afflore[12] where she stondes.
Hur bed was of aszure.
- ↑ Courteous people.
- ↑ Pourtrayed.
- ↑ A clock. This is a curious notice of a domestic clock at an early period. For further particulars on early clocks, see Barrington's paper in the fifth volume of the Archæologia.
- ↑ Mullions.
- ↑ Jet.
- ↑ Ornamented canopies or niches.
- ↑ Several.
- ↑ Swords.
- ↑ Variegated.
- ↑ Covered.
- ↑ Rich cloth.
- ↑ On the floor.
- ↑ Canopy.
