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]