"What Friar?" said Juan; and he did his best
To put the question with an air sedate,
Or careless; but the effort was not valid
To hinder him from growing still more pallid.
XXXVI.
"Oh! have you never heard of the Black Friar?
The Spirit of these walls?"—"In truth not I."
"Why Fame—but Fame you know's sometimes a liar—
Tells an odd story, of which by and by:
Whether with time the Spectre has grown shyer,