An uncouth, salvage, and uncivile wight,

Of griesly hew and fowle ill-favour’d sight;

His face with smoke was tand, and eies were bleard,

His head and beard with sout were ill bedight,

His cole-blacke hands did seem to have ben seard

In smythes fire-spitting forge, and nayles like clawes appeard....

And round about him lay on every side

Great heapes of gold that never could be spent;

Of which some were rude owre, not purifide,

Of Mulcibers devouring element;