By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead, To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
He questioned Brother Ambrose of the matter, and when he heard the Vision bade him limn the Holy City even as he had seen it; and the Precentor gave him uterine vellum and much fine gold and what colours he asked for the work.
Whereupon I gave him the gear and said to him, Limnfor us a rare semblance.
She abode by the tomb a whole month; then she caused fetch painters and bade them limn her likeness and the portraiture of the king's son.
He is wont in every city he entereth to limn her likeness, and I follow him, and longsome is my way.
He questioned Brother Ambrose of the matter, and when he heard the Vision, bade him limn the Holy City even as he had seen it; and the Precentor gave him uterine vellum and much fine gold and what colours he asked for the work.
Dost still think that it will soil thy brush to limn such an one as I?
Then, by the Prior's command, Hilarius set himself tolimn a great picture for the High Altar.
