And fix’d their hopes on him. Slight impulse now
Sufficed to make these fiery martialists
Break forth in open fury; and though first
Count Pedro listen’d with suspicious ear
To Julian’s dying errand, deeming it
Some new decoy of treason, ... when he found
A second legate follow’d Virimar,
And then a third, and saw the turbulence
Of the camp, and how against the Moors in haste
They form’d their lines, he knew that Providence