Note 540 — BOOK VIII.
William Julius Mickle translation
So let the tyrant plead.—In this short declamation, a seeming excrescence, the business of the poem in reality is carried on. The zamorim, and his prime minister, the catual, are artfully characterised in it; and the assertion—
Lur'd was the regent with the Moorish gold,
is happily introduced by the declamatory reflections which immediately precede it.