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following curious descriptive account of the interior of a chamber is taken from a manuscript of the fifteenth century in the Public Library at Cambridge, containing the metrical romance of Sir Degrevant. There is another copy of the same romance in the library of Lincoln cathedral, which furnishes a few variations. The rarity of such pieces gives considerable interest to this extract.

Ther was a ryal rooffe In a chaumber of loffe, Hyt was buskyd above With besauntes ful bryȝth, All off ruel bon , Whyȝth oger and parpon , Mony a dere wrothe stone, Endentyd and dyȝth. Ther men myȝth se, ho that wolde, Arcangeles of rede golde , ffytly mad of o molde, Lowynge ful lyȝth; With the Pocalyps of Jon, The Powles Pystoles everychon. The paraboles of Salamon, Payntyd ful ryȝth.