[41] In a niche, near the Aldersgate, stood the headless statue of Fortitude, which monks and pilgrims deemed some unknown saint in the old time, and halted to honour.

And in the midst of Bishopsgate-street, sate on his desecrated throne a mangled Jupiter, his eagle at his feet.

Many a half-converted Dane there lingered, and mistook the Thunderer and the bird for Odin and his hawk.

By Leod-gate (the People's gate [42]) still too were seen the arches of one of those mighty aqueducts which the Roman learned from the Etrurian.

And close by the Still-yard, occupied by "the Emperor's cheap men" (the German merchants), stood, almost entire, the Roman temple, extant in the time of Geoffrey of Monmouth.