And shudderings like an ague fit, from head

To foot convulsed him; till at length, subduing

His nature to the effort, he exclaim’d,

Spreading his hands and lifting up his face,

As if resolved in penitence to bear

A human eye upon his shame, ... Thou seest

Roderick the Goth! That name would have sufficed

To tell its whole abhorred history:

He not the less pursued, ... the ravisher,

The cause of all this ruin! Having said,