While hostile banners o’er thy rampart walls

Wave their proud blazonry?

1st Sicilian. Even so. I stood

Last night before my own ancestral towers

An unknown outcast, while the tempest beat

On my bare head. What reck’d it? There was joy

Within, and revelry; the festive lamps

Were streaming from each turret, and gay songs

I’ th’ stranger’s tongue, made mirth. They little deem’d

Who heard their melodies! But there are thoughts