Wherof that Puile and ek Cartage
With Philosophres wise and grete
Begunne of this matiere trete,[16]
And ate laste in this degre
Ther weren Philosophres thre,
P. ii. 197
To do this thing whiche undertoke,
And therupon thei with hem toke
A gret tresor of gold in cophres,[17]
To Rome and thus these philisophres 2080