As the see of welles and springes,—
1985
And hit was shapen lyk a cage.
'Certes,' quod I, 'in al myn age,
Ne saugh I swich a hous as this.'
And as I wondred me, y-wis,
Upon this hous, tho war was I
(900) 1990
How that myn egle, faste by,
Was perched hye upon a stoon;