That thou wilt still remember Roderick’s name.

Roderick so long had to this hour look’d on,

That when the actual point of trial came,

Torpid and numb’d it found him; cold he grew,

And as the vital spirits to the heart

Retreated, o’er his wither’d countenance,

Deathy and damp, a whiter paleness spread.

Unmoved the while, the inward feeling seem’d,

Even in such dull insensibility

As gradual age brings on, or slow disease,