hir-selven lyk to the comune mesure of men, and sum-tyme it
semede that she touchede the hevene with the heighte of hir
heved; and whan she [heef] hir heved hyer, she percede the
selve hevene, [so that] the sighte of men looking was in ydel. Hir
clothes weren maked of right [delye] thredes and subtil crafte, of
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perdurable matere; the whiche clothes she hadde woven with hir
owene hondes, as I knew wel after by hir-self, declaringe and
shewinge to me the beautee; the whiche clothes a derknesse of a
forleten and dispysed elde hadde dusked and derked, [as it is wont]