As flakes [falle] in grete snowes.
And eek in ech of the pinacles
Weren sondry [habitacles],
1195
In whiche stoden, al withoute—
[Ful the castel], al aboute—
[Of] alle maner of minstrales,
And gestiours, that tellen tales
Bothe of weping and of game,
(110) 1200