This queynte hous aboute wente,

[That never-mo hit stille stente].

And ther-out com so greet a noise,

That, had hit stonden upon [Oise],

Men mighte hit han herd esely

(840) 1930

To Rome, I trowe sikerly.

And the noyse which that I herde,

For al the world right so hit ferde,

As doth [the routing of the stoon]