In open day the city’s crowded streets,

So rare he deem’d the virtue. Honesty

And sense of natural duty in a Priest!

Now for a miracle, ye Saints of Spain!

I shall not pry too closely for the wires,

For, seeing what I see, ye have me now

In the believing mood!

O blessed Saints,

Florinda cried, ’tis from the bitterness,

Not from the hardness of the heart, he speaks!