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best times, is shortly signified in these words of Chaucer. 

 Love's Garden, 



Everidele 



Enclosed was, and walled well 



With high walls, embatailled, 



Portrayed without, and well entayled 



With many rich portraitures. 



The French original is better still, and gives four arts in 

 unison : 



Quant suis avant un pou ale 



Et vy un vergier grant et le, 



Bien cloz de bon mur batillie 



Pourtrait dehors, et entaillie 



Ou (for,au) maintes riches escriptures. 



Read also carefully the description of the temples of Mars 

 and Venus in the Knight's Tale. Contemporary French uses 

 ' entaille ' even of solid sculpture and of the living form ; and 

 Pygmalion, as a perfect master, professes wood carving, ivory 

 carving, wax-work, and iron-work, no less than stone sculpt- 

 -ore : 



Pimalioii, uns entaillieres 

 Pourtraians en fuz * et en pierres. 

 En mettaux, en os, et en cire, 

 Et en toute autre matire. 



58. I made a little sketch, when last in Florence, of a sub- 

 ject which will fix the idea of this unity of the arts in your 

 minds. At the base of the tower of Giotto are two rows of 

 hexagonal panels, filled with bas-reliefs. Some of these are 

 by unknown hands, some by Andrea Pisano, some by Luca 

 della Robbia, two by Giotto himself ; of these I sketched the 

 panel representing the art of Painting. 



You have in that bas-relief one of the foundation-stones of 

 the most perfectly-built tower in Europe ; you have that stone 

 carved by its architect's own hand ; you find, further, that this 



*For fust, log of wood, erroneously 'fer'in the later printed editions. 

 Compare the account of the works of Art and Nature, towards the end 

 of the Romance of the Rose. 



