(See Sir Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet.)

A lady who concealed her Name,

Nor let her Face be fully seen,

To her admiring [Counsel] came,

Veil’d in an Hood and Mantle green.

All that he saw, the Youth approved;

But much there was he could not trace:

He wished the Envious Veil removed

That hid the Beauties of that Face.

All that Sir Walter’s page has told—