And gave the Moor his conquest.
Aye! they said,
These were Witiza’s hateful progeny;
And in an evil hour the unhappy King
Had spared the viperous brood. With that they talk’d
How Sisibert and Ebba through the land
Guided the foe: and Orpas, who had cast
The mitre from his renegado brow,
Went with the armies of the infidels;
And how in Hispalis, even where his hands