| | He letteth not his felow forto se | |
| 1035 | Estward ther was a gate of marbil whit | |
| | Westward suche another appositit | |
| | And shortly to conclude suche a place | |
| | Was non in erthe in so lityl space | |
| | For in the lond ther was no craftis man | |
| 1040 | That gemetrie or ars metric can | |
| | Ne portreture ne keruar of Images | |
| | That Theseus ne yaf mete drynke & wages | |
| | The entre forto make and deuyse | |
| | And forto do his ryte and his sacrifice | |
| 1045 | He Estward hath vp on the gate aboue | |
| | In worship of venus goddesse of loue | |
| | Do make an auter and an Oratory | |
| | And on the westward in memory | |
| | Of marce hath he maad suche anothir | |
| 1050 | That coste large of gold a fothir | |
| | And northward in a tour of the wal | |
| | Of whit alabastre and reed coral | |
| | An Oratory riche forto see | |
| | In worship of dyane goddesse of chastite | |
| 1055 | Hath Theseus do wrought in nobil wise | |
| | But yet hadde I forgete to deuyse | |
| | The nobill keruynge and the portreturis | |
| | The shap the countenaunce & the figuris | |
| | That weren in the Oratoryes thre | |
| 1060 | First in the tempil of venus thou maist se | |
| | Wrought in the wal ful petously to be holde | |
| | The brokyn slepis and the sighis colde | |
