Odious is his garb
Of ostentatious purple; jewelled hands;
That beard down-streaming like the chisel’d locks
Of Moses from the hand of Angelo.”
Like a gleam of sunshine, for a moment, comes a happy description of a visit from Elizabeth to the queen. Underhill is the narrator. It is in the ninth scene of this too long third Act.
“Her royal barge
Was garlanded with flowers, festooned around
An awning of green satin, richly broidered
With eglantine and buds of gold. The bright one
Beneath this canopy reclined in state,