¶De palacijs Rome
THere were many palayces ryal and noble y buylde in Ro¦me in worship of Emperours and of other noble men also Among the whiche the grettest and moost palays of alle was in the myddel of the cyte in tokē of one principalite of all the world wyde / Also the palays of pees· therin Romulus dyde do sette his owne ymage of gold and sayde / hit shal neuer falle til a mayde bere a child / And that ymage fylle whan Criste was born / Di¦oclisians palays hath pylers as highe an a stone caste / and so gre¦te about that an c men al a yere worchyng shold vnneth hewe one of thylk pylers. Also there was a palays of sixty emperours· & yet stondeth a part therof. that al Rome may not destroye / De templis There as pantheon the temple of all mawmetrye was is now a chirche of alle halowen And by cause our lady is after Criste is chyef and holyest of alle mankynde / that chirche hath the name of our lady. and is called sancta maria rotunda that is the round chirche of our lady. And hath in brede the space of / ij /