Crossword-Solution: METTLES 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

THIS DESERT ISLAND IS DISCOVERED BY WALTER HARRIS AND ALL PRETAINING TO IT INCLUDING APPLES AND EVERYTHING AND OTHER KINDS OF FOOD AND WILD ANIMALS IF THERE ARE ANY ALSO PRESIOUS METTLES AND ALL NATIVES MUST SWEAR TO WALTER HARRIS I MEAN THEY MUST SWEAR ALLEAGANCE AND SAID WALTER HARRIS SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT OF SETTLEMENT.

Amour 21 Letters and lynes, we see, are soone defaced, Mettles doe waste and fret with cankers rust; The Diamond shall once consume to dust, And freshest colours with foule staines disgraced.

Sprites of all looks and all hues--of all "dimensions, shapes, and mettles,"--the dwarfish elf and the elegant fay--Cobweb commissioned to kill a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle, that Bottom might have the honey-bag--Pease-Blossom, who had the less agreeable employment of scratching the weaver's head--and that individual fairy who could find the hoard of the squirrel and carry away his nuts--with a score of equally merry companions are swarming everywhere and in full employment.

Then there flamed in Emerson Mead's heart that wild, white rage that mettles the nerves and steels the muscles of him who suffers that indignity.