[Footnote 58: The exterior of Chaucer's House of Fame,
Both the castle, and the tower
And eke the hall, and every bower
was of beryl, which Pope transfers to the inside of the building.
Chaucer says of the interior that
Every wall
Of it, and floor, and roof, and all
Was plated half a foote thick
Of gold.
This gold was covered, as grass clothes a meadow, with jewelled
ornaments
Fine, of the finest stones fair
That men read in the Lapidaire.]
[Footnote 59: Milton, Par. Lost, i. 726:
From the arched roof
Pendent by subtle magic many a row
Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed
With Naptha and Asphaltus, yielded light
As from a sky.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 60: Addison's Vision: "A band of historians took their station
at each door."]
[Footnote 61: Alexander the Great. The tiara was the crown peculiar to
the Asian princes. His desire to be thought the son of Jupiter Ammon,
caused him to wear the horns of that god, and to represent the same upon
his coins, which was continued by several of his successors.--POPE.]
[Footnote 62: Dryden, Ode to St. Cecilia: