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In Giotto's Charity, luckily not restored, at Assisi, the guide-books have always mistaken the heart she holds for an apple: and my own belief is that originally, the Grammatice of Simon Memmi made with her right hand the sign which said, "Enter ye in at the Strait Gate," and with her left, the sign which said, "My son, give me thine Heart."
Severe exercises all, reaching very few living persons know, how far: beginning properly in childhood, then only to be truly acquired. "Enter ye in," therefore, says Grammatice, "at the Strait Gate." The gate is very strait indeed her own waist no less so, her hair fastened close. She had once a white veil binding it, which is lost.
The corresponding Old English terms were forgotten during the age of illiteracy, and when, generations later, the speaker of English came again to deal with such subjects, he had to do like Layamon, when he knew no longer tungol-croeft, and could refer to it only as 'the craft ihote astronomie in other kunnes speche. Also Medulla Grammaticae, or usually Grammatice.
Which I proceed to do, reading first from left to right for the earthly sciences, and then from right to left the heavenly ones, to the centre, where their two highest powers sit, side by side. GRAMMAR: more properly Grammatice, "Grammatic Act" the Art of Letters or "Literature," or using the word which to some English ears will carry most weight with it, "Scripture," and its use.
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