I took the vow, unworthy as I am,
Her first sworn follower in the appointed rule;
And then we parted; she among the hills
To rouse the vassals of her father’s house:
I at her bidding hitherward, to ask
Thy counsel, who of our old Baronage
Shall place upon his brow the Spanish crown.
The Lady Adosinda? Odoar cried.
Roderick made answer, So she call’d herself.
Oh none but she! exclaim’d the good old man,