‘——the cold icicles from his rough beard
Dropped adown upon her snowy breast!’
Or is it not a sufficient account of one of the sea-gods that pass by them, to say—
‘That was Arion crowned:—
So went he playing on the watery plain.’
Or to take the Procession of the Passions that draw the coach of Pride, in which the figures of Idleness, of Gluttony, of Lechery, of Avarice, of Envy, and of Wrath speak, one should think, plain enough for themselves; such as this of Gluttony:
‘And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,
Deformed creature, on a filthy swine;
His belly was up blown with luxury;
And eke with fatness swollen were his eyne;