In politic wedlock. Wherefore should I tell

How Nature upon Egilona’s form,

Profuse of beauty, lavishing her gifts,

Left, like a statue from the graver’s hands,

Deformity and hollowness beneath

The rich external? For the love of pomp

And emptiest vanity, hath she not incurr’d

The grief and wonder of good men, the gibes

Of vulgar ribaldry, the reproach of all;

Profaning the most holy sacrament