Tu as bien oy, dist elle, es fablez des poetes que li geant assaillirent le ciel o les diex ; mais la debonnaire force de dieu les ordena et les destruist, si comme elle dut et si comme il fu chose digne.
‘Thou hast wel herd,’ quod she, ‘the fables of the poetes, how the giaunts assaileden the hevene with the goddes; but forsothe, the debonair force of goddeposede hem, as it was worthy; that is to seyn, destroyede the giaunts, as it was worthy.