Note 58 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Reading edition
The exterior of Chaucer's House of Fame,
Both the castle, and the tower And eke the hall, and every bower
was of beryl, which Pope transfers to the inside of the building. Chaucer says of the interior that
Every wall Of it, and floor, and roof, and all Was plated half a foote thick Of gold.
This gold was covered, as grass clothes a meadow, with jewelled ornaments
Fine, of the finest stones fair That men read in the Lapidaire.