4 And golden foil all over them displayed, 5 That purest sky with brightness they dismayed:
That > [So that the]
6 High lifted up were many lofty towers, 7 And goodly galleries far over laid,
goodly > fine, beautiful far over laid > placed high above
8 Full of fair windows, and delightful bowers;
bowers > chambers, rooms
9 And on the top a dial told the timely hours.
104.5
It was a goodly heape for to behould,
2 And spake the praises of the workmans wit;
But full great pittie, that so faire a mould
4 Did on so weake foundation euer sit:
For on a sandie hill, that still did flit,
6 And fall away, it mounted was full hie,
That euery breath of heauen shaked it:
8 And all the hinder parts, that few could spie,
Were ruinous and old, but painted cunningly.
1 It was a goodly heap to behold,