“Why shulde I not as vvel eke tell you all

The portreiture that was upon the wall

Within the temple of mighty Mars the Rede?

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“First on the wall was peinted a forest,

In which thcr wonncth neythcr man ne best;

With knotty, knarry, barrein trees old,

Of stubbes sharpe, and hldous to behold;