Note 56 — SCENE I.—A Hall in Monticelso's Mansion.
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"This White Devil of Italy sets off a bad cause so speciously, and pleads with such an innocence-resembling boldness, that we seem to see that matchless beauty of her face which inspires such gay confidence into her; and are ready to expect, when she has done her pleadings, that her very judges, her accusers, the grave ambassadors who sit as spectators, and all the court, will rise and make proffer to defend her in spite of the utmost conviction of her guilt; as the shepherds in Don Quixote make proffer to follow the beautiful shepherdess Marcela, 'without reaping any profit out of her manifest resolution made there in their hearing.'
"'So sweet and lovely does she make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Does spot the beauty of her budding name.'" C. Lamb. (Spec. of Eng. Dram. Poets.)