[Footnote 119: A glance at the Revolution of 1688.--CROKER.]
[Footnote 120: The scene here changes from the Temple of Fame to that of
Rumour, which is almost entirely Chaucer's. The particulars follow:
Tho saw I stonde in a valey,
Under the castle faste by
A house, that Domus Dedali
That Labyrinthus cleped is,
Nas made so wonderly I wis,
Ne half so queintly ywrought;
And evermo, as swift as thought,
This queinte house aboute went,
That never more stille it stent--
And eke this house hath of entrees
As fele of leaves as ben on trees
In summer, when they grene ben;
And in the roof yet men may sene
A thousand holes, and well mo
To letten well the soune out go;
And by day in every tide
Ben all the doores open wide,
And by night each one unshet;
No porter is there one to let
No manner tydings in to pace:
Ne never rest is in that place.--POPE.]
[Footnote 121: This thought is transferred thither out of the second
book of Fame, where it takes up no less than one hundred and twenty
verses, beginning thus: