So passyd we forthe into the forsayd place, With suche communycacyon as came to our mynde; And then she sayd, Whylis we haue tyme and space To walke where we lyst, let vs somwhat fynde To pas the tyme with, but let vs wast no wynde, For ydle iangelers haue but lytill braine; Wordes be swordes, and hard to call ageine. Into a felde she brought me wyde and large, Enwallyd aboute with the stony flint, Strongly enbateld, moche costious of charge: 570 To walke on this walle she bed I sholde not[1618] stint; Go softly, she sayd, the stones be full glint. She went before, and bad me take good holde: I sawe a thowsande yatis new and olde. Then questionyd I her what thos[1619] yatis ment; Wherto she answeryd, and breuely me tolde, How from the est vnto the occident, And from the sowth vnto the north so colde, Theis yatis, she sayd, which that ye beholde, Be issuis and portis from all maner of nacyons; 580 And seryously she shewyd me ther denominacyons. They had wrytyng, sum Greke, sum Ebrew, Some Romaine letters, as I vnderstode; Some were olde wryten, sum were writen new, Some carectis of Caldy, sum Frensshe was full good; But one gate specyally, where as I stode, Had grauin in it of calcydony a capytall A; What yate[1620] call ye this? and she sayd, Anglia.[1621] The beldynge therof was passynge commendable; Wheron stode a lybbard, crownyd with golde and stones, 590 Terrible of countenaunce and passynge formydable, As quikly towchyd as it were flesshe and bones, As gastly that glaris, as grimly that gronis, As fersly frownynge as he had ben fyghtyng, And with his forme foote he shoke forthe this wrytyng: [Sidenote: Cacosinthicon[1622] ex industria.] _Formidanda nimis Jovis ultima fulmina tollis:_ _Unguibus ire parat loca singula livida curvis_ _Quam modo per Phœbes nummos raptura Celæno;_ _Arma, lues, luctus, fel, vis, fraus, barbara tellus;_ _Mille modis erras odium tibi quærere Martis:_ 600 _Spreto spineto cedat saliunca roseto._ Then I me lent, and loked ouer the wall: Innumerable people presed to euery gate; Shet were the gatis; thei might wel knock and cal, And turne home ageyne, for they cam al to late. I her demaunded of them and ther astate: Forsothe, quod she, theys be haskardis[1623] and rebawdis, Dysers, carders, tumblars with gambawdis, Furdrers of loue, with baudry aqueinted, Brainles blenkardis that blow at the cole, 610 Fals forgers of mony, for kownnage[1624] atteintid, Pope holy ypocrytis, as they were golde and hole, Powle hatchettis, that prate wyll[1625] at euery ale pole, Ryot, reueler, railer, brybery, theft, With other condycyons that well myght be left: