thenne gon i meeten a mervelous sweven , that i was in a wilderness wuste i never wher ; and as i beheold into the est an height to the sonne i sauh a tour on a toft , tryelyche i-maket ; a deop dale bineoth , a dungun ther-inn , with deop dich and derk and dredful of sight a faire felde full of folks fonde i there bitwene , of alle manner of men , the mene and the riche , worching and wandring as the worlde asketh ... english will never be the language of scholars .