Ful of degre þe height of sixty paas
That whan a man was set in o degre
he letted nought his felaw for to se
Line 1892
Estward þer stood a gate of marbul whit
westward such anoþer in opposit/
And schortly to conclude such a place
was non in erþe in so litel space
Line 1896
In al þe lond þer nas no craftys man
That geometry or arsmetrike can
Ne purtreyour ne keruer of ymages [folio 26a]
That Theseus ne ȝaf hem mete and wages
Line 1900
The theatre for to maken and deuyse
And for to don his right and sacrifise
he Estward haþ vpon þe gate aboue
In worschip of venus goddes of loue
Line 1904
Don make an auter and an oratory
And westward in þe mynde and in memory
Of mars he haþ I-maked such an oþer
That coste largely of gold a foþer
Line 1908
And northward in a toret on þe walle
Of alabaster whit and reed coralle
An oratory riche for to see
In worschip of Dyane goddes of chastite
Line 1912
hath Theseus I-wrought in noble wise
But ȝit/ had I forgeten to deuyse /
The nobil keruyng and þe purtretures
The schap þe contynaunce of þe figures
Line 1916
That weren in þe Oratories þre
Furst in þe temple of venus þou may se
wrought in þe wal ful pitous to byholde
Thre broken slepes and þe sykes colde
Line 1920
The sacred teeres and þe waymentyng
The fuyry strokes and þe desiryng
That loues servauntȝ in þis lyf enduren
The othes þat by her couenantȝ assuren
Line 1924
Plesance and hope desyr fool-hardynesse
