Our towns subdued, ... our country overrun, ...

The people to the yoke of their new Lords

Resign’d in peace.... Can I not mediate?...

Were it not better through my agency

To gain such terms, ... such honourable terms....

Terms! cried Pelayo, cutting short at once

That dastard speech, and checking, ere it grew

Too powerful for restraint, the incipient wrath

Which in indignant murmurs breathing round,

Rose like a gathering storm, learn thou what terms