Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton; Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton [Hrsg.]: The art of needle-work from the earliest ages: including some notices of the ancient historical tapestries (London: Henry Colburn Publishers, 1841)

170 ROMANCES WORKED IN TAPESTRY.
All these
“ Theyr noble actes, and tryumphes marcyall,
Freshly were browdred in these clothes royall.”
“ But over the hye desse, in the pryncypall place,
Where the sayd thre kynges sate crowned al),
The best hallynge * hanged, as reason was,
Whereon were wrought the nine orders angelicall
Dyvyded in thre ierarchyses, not cessynge to call
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, blessed be the Trynite,
Dominius Deus Sabaoth, three persons in one deyte,”
Then followed in order our Blessed Lady, the
twelve Apostles, “ eche one in his figure,” the four
Evangelists “ wrought most curyously,” all the dis-
ciples
“ Prechynge and techynge, unto every nacyon,
The fay thtes + of holy chyrche, for their salvacyon.’’
“ Martyrs then followed, right manifoldeCon-
fessors “ fressely embrodred in ryche tyshewe and
fyne.” Saintly virgins cc were brothered J the clothes
of gold within,” and the long array was closed on the
other side of the hall by
“ Noble auncyent storyes, and how the stronge Sampson
Subdued his enemyes by his myghty power ;
Of Hector of Troye, slayne by fals treason;
Of noble Arthur, kynge of this regyon ;
With many other mo, which it is to longe
Playnly to expresse this tyme you amonge.”
But the powers of the chief proportion of needle-
women, and of many of the subsequent tapestry looms
were devoted to giving permanence to those fables
* Hallynge—Tapestry. t Faythtes—feats, facts.
+ Brothered—embroidered.