But that it shone full more clere,
But of what congeled matere
It was, I n' iste redely,
But at the last espied I,
And found that it was every dele
A thing of yse and not of stele:
Thought I, "By Saint Thomas of Kent,
This were a feeble foundement
To builden on a place so hie;
He ought him little to glorifie