Forthwith vpon this, as it were in a thought, 1100
Gower, Chawcer, Lydgate, theis thre
Before remembred, me curteisly[1755] brought
Into that place where as they left me,
Where all the sayd poetis sat in there degre.
But when they sawe my lawrell rychely wrought,[1756]
All other besyde were counterfete[1757] they thought
In comparyson of that whiche I ware:
Sume praysed the perle, some the stones bryght;
Wele was hym that therevpon myght stare;