The wan and wither’d features of the King.

The face is of a stranger, but thy voice

Disturbs me like a dream.

Roderick replied,

Thou seest me as I am, ... a stranger; one

Whose fortunes in the general wreck were lost,

His name and lineage utterly extinct,

Himself in mercy spared, surviving all; ...

In mercy, that the bitter cup might heal

A soul diseased. Now, having cast the slough