(His Bucolicks are a master-piece); but when,” &c.
Jealous of Virgil's honour, he is afraid lest, by referring to the Georgics alone, he might be understood as undervaluing the preceding work. “Not that I do not admire the Bucolics too, in their way.—But when,” &c.
Act iii. sc. 3. Charles's speech:—
... “She has a face looks like a story;
The story of the heavens looks very like her.”
Seward reads “glory;” and Theobald quotes from Philaster:—
“That reads the story of a woman's face.”
I can make sense of this passage as little as Mr. Seward;—the passage from Philaster is nothing to the purpose. Instead of “a story,” I have sometimes thought of proposing “Astræa.”
Ib. Angellina's speech:—
... “You're old and dim, Sir,