But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy!
Hail, divinest [Melancholy]!
Whose saintly visage is too bright
[To hit the sense of human sight],
And therefore to our weaker view, 15
O’erlaid with black, staid Wisdom’s hue;
Black, but such as in esteem
[Prince Memnon’s] sister might beseem,
Or [that starred Ethiop queen] that strove
To set her beauty’s praise above 20