And virtues (know) [when] skin-perfections gloss 'em,
4250Awe Fortune's wrath, and challenge heaven's honour.
Hell cannot cancel them, nor Envy dross 'em.
Love! if to me the same content thou'lt yield,
I'll limn thy mother on Minerva's shield.
Notes: The Pleasing History of Albino and Bellama
6 In which of the various fancy Bruts 'Adell' occurs I am not at the moment certain. Brydges, I suppose, deceived by Don Fuco, &c., oddly 'places the scene in Spain'.
15 age of consistency] = 'grow tired of existing together'—a Whitingism almost Brownist in character.
25 'Agathite'] 'Agath' is a form of 'agate': is 'agathite' a coinage suggested by the blending of colours in the agate?
27 Saba] The Queen of Sheba.