Concealment between two right Gothic hearts

In evil days like ours? What thou hast seen

Is but the first fruit of the sacrifice,

Which on this injured and polluted soil,

As on a bloody altar, I have sworn

To offer to insulted Heaven for Spain,

Her vengeance and her expiation. This

Was but a hasty act, by sudden wrong

Provoked: but I am bound for Cordoba,

On weighty mission from Visonia sent,