In that time, through good geometry,
this honest craft of good masonry
was ordained and made in this manner,
counterfeited of these clerks together;
at these Lords' prayers they
couterfeited geometry
And gave it the name of masonry,
for the most honest craft of all,
these Lord's children thereto did fall,
To learn of him the craft of geometry...
from the Regius poem (around 1390
