summer's
noon
'T is like a tavern sign . '' Louis did not seem to resent the interruption . `` My good gossip , in a dream nothing seems strange . Well , as I said , I set this pearl in my crown and the light of it seemed to fill all my good city of Paris with glory so that I could see every street and alley , every tower and pinnacle , more clearly than in a summer 's noon . And then memought that the pearl weighed so heavy upon my forehead that I plucked it from its place and cast it to the ground , and would have trodden it under foot when a star shot swiftly from Heaven and stayed me . '' The king looked eagerly at his companion , who seemed wholly uninterested in the narrative of the royal vision . `` Dreams and stars , stars and dreams , '' he sneered .