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