Ere yet he left her home, the Mother told—
For she had seen—what things he should behold.
There, she related, her young eyes had view’d
Stone figures shaped like naked flesh and blood,
Which, in the hall and up the gallery placed,
Were proofs, they told her, of a noble taste;
Nor she denied—but, in a public hall, 230
Her judgment taken, she had clothed them all.
There, too, were station’d, each upon its seat,
Half forms of men, without their hands and feet;