Al is his tombe noght so curyus
As was the sepulcre of hym Daryus,
Which that Appelles wroghte subtilly;
It nys but wast to burye hym preciously.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue. The Wife of Bath was not into any expensive commemoration for her fourth husband, which she dismisses as nothing but waste! Certainly nothing as elaborate as the sepulcher of Darius that was skillfully wrought by Appelles, she says. Darius III was ancient King of Persia and his tomb was designed by the artist Appelles.