'But what dost thou here than?' quod he. Quod I, 'that wol I tellen thee, The cause why I stondë here:-- 1885 Som newe tydings for to lere:-- Som newe thinges, I not what, Tydinges, other this or that, Of love, or swiche thinges glade. For certeynly, he that me made (800) 1890 To comen hider, seyde me, I shulde bothe here and see, In this place, wonder thinges; But these be no swiche tydinges As I mene of.' 'No?' quod he. 1895 And I answerde, 'No, pardee! For wel I wiste, ever yit, Sith that first I hadde wit, That som folk han desyred fame Dyversly, and loos, and name; (810) 1900 But certeynly, I niste how Ne wher that Fame dwelte, er now; Ne eek of hir descripcioun, Ne also hir condicioun, Ne the ordre of hir dome, 1905 Unto the tyme I hider come.' '[Whiche] be, lo, these tydinges, That thou now [thus] hider bringes, That thou hast herd?' quod he to me; 'But now, no fors; for wel I see (820) 1910 What thou desyrest for to here. Com forth, and stond no longer here, And I wol thee, with-outen drede, In swich another place lede, Ther thou shalt here many oon.' 1915 Tho gan I forth with him to goon Out of the castel, soth to seye. Tho saugh I stonde in a valeye, Under the castel, faste by, An hous, that _domus Dedali_, (830) 1920 That _Laborintus_ cleped is, Nas maad so wonderliche, y-wis, Ne half so queynteliche y-wrought. And evermo, so swift as thought, This queynte hous aboute wente, 1925 That never-mo hit stille stente. And ther-out com so greet a noise, That, had hit stonden upon Oise, Men mighte hit han herd esely To Rome, I trowe sikerly. (840) 1930 And the noyse which that I herde, For al the world right so hit ferde, As doth the routing of the stoon That from thengyn is leten goon. And al this hous, of whiche I rede, 1935 Was made of twigges, falwe, rede, And grene eek, and som weren whyte, Swiche as men to these cages thwyte, Or maken of these paniers, Or elles hottes or dossers; (850) 1940 That, for the swough and for the twigges, This hous was also ful of gigges, And also ful eek of chirkinges, And of many other werkinges; And eek this hous hath of entrees 1945 As fele as leves been on trees In somer, whan they grene been; And on the roof men may yit seen A thousand holes, and wel mo, To leten wel the soun out go. (860) 1950 And by day, in every tyde, Ben al the dores open wyde,