And tho me thoghte that I sih

A gret ston from an hull on hyh[154]

Fel doun of sodein aventure

Upon the feet of this figure, 620

With which Ston al tobroke was

Gold, Selver, Erthe, Stiel and Bras,

That al was in to pouldre broght,

And so forth torned into noght.’

P. i. 25

Hic loquitur de interpretacione sompnii, et primo dicit[155] de significacione capitis aurei.