THE PLEASING HISTORY OF ALBINO AND BELLAMA

When British Isles—begirt with moist'ned sand,

Neptune's blue palace, and the Triton's walk—

Albania hight, her name who first did land

Of all the sisters, or from rocks of chalk;

From sad oppression had unyok'd their necks,

And paid obedience unto Adell's becks,

Then, in those halcyon days of peace and joy,

A virtuous lady, most transcendent creature,

Fairer than her whose beauty cinder'd Troy—