Note 1058 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]
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They may be seen at work in the Tapestry. Wace too (11473) gives a vivid account;
“Fevres è charpentiers manda;
Dunc véissiez à granz esforz
Par Normendie à toz li porz,
Mairrien atraire è fust porter,
Cheviles fere et boiz doler,
Nés et esquiz apareillier,
Veiles estendre, mast drecier
A grant entente et à grant cost.”
Cf. the great speech of Dikaiopolis in the Acharnians, 471 et seqq., especially 526 et seqq.; τὸ νεώριον δ’ αὖ κωπέωυ πλατουμέυωυ, κ.τ.λ.