And all seemed finished now, when “Hear me,” cried
The Prince—“Hear me, although a captive thrall;
Ye know that if my brother childless died,
Mine would be then the throne of Portugal:
While this is so, no power has he at all
Aught of its state to alienate or lose,
Unless with my consent, which I refuse.
XXII.
“Shall that fair city, on whose walls my Sire