By way of further illustration, I here quote the whole of Golding's translation of the above passage from Ovid:-- 'Amid the world tweene heauen and earth, and sea, there is a place, Set from the bounds of each of them indifferently in space, From whence is seene what-euer thing is practizde any-where, Although the Realme be neere so farre: and roundly to the eare Commes whatsoeuer spoken is; Fame hath his dwelling there, Who in the top of all the house is lodged in a towre. A thousand entries, glades, and holes are framed in this bowre. There are no doores to shut. The doores stand open night and day. The house is all of sounding brasse, and roreth euery way, Reporting double euery word it heareth people say. There is no rest within, there is no silence any-where. Yet is there not a yelling out: but humming, as it were The sound of surges being heard farre off, or like the sound That at the end of thunderclaps long after doth redound When _Ioue_ doth make the clouds to crack. Within the courts is preace Of common people, which to come and go do neuer ceace. And millions both of troths and lies run gadding euery-where, And wordes confuselie flie in heapes, of which some fill the eare That heard not of them erst, and some cole-cariers part do play, To spread abroade the things they heard, and euer by the way The thing that was inuented growes much greater than before, And euery one that gets it by the end addes somewhat more. Light credit dwelleth there, there dwells rash error, there doth dwell Vaine ioy: there dwelleth hartlesse feare, and brute that loues to tell Uncertaine newes vpon report, whereof he doth not knowe The author, and sedition who fresh rumors loues to sowe. This Fame beholdeth what is done in heauen, on sea, and land, And what is wrought in all the world he layes to vnderstand.' § 5. DATE OF THE POEM. Ten Brink, in his Chaucer Studien, pp. 120, 121, concludes that The House of Fame was, in all probability, composed shortly after Troilus, as the opening lines reproduce, in effect, a passage concerning dreams which appears in the last Book of Troilus, ll. 358-385. We may also observe the following lines in Troilus, from Book I, 517-8:-- 'Now, thonked be god, he may goon in the daunce Of hem that Love list febly for to avaunce.' These lines, jestingly applied to Troilus by Pandarus, are in the House of Fame, 639, 640, applied by Chaucer to himself:-- 'Although thou mayst go in the daunce Of hem that him list not avaunce.'