gloss quotes

His iron coat all overgrown with rust, Was underneath envelope'  d with gold, Whose glistering gloss darkened with filthy dust, Well yet appeare'  d, to have been of old A work of rich entail, and curious mold, Woven with antics and wild imagery.

- Edmund Spenser
  Of Mammon.The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 7, stanza 4.