Rode toward the troops; its unaccustom’d shape

Disliked him; Renegade in all things! cried

The Goth, and cast it from him; to the Chiefs

Then said, If I have done ye service here,

Help me, I pray you, to a Spanish sword!

The trustiest blade that e’er in Bilbilis

Was dipt, would not to-day be misbestowed

On this right hand!... Go some one, Gunderick cried,

And bring Count Julian’s sword. Whoe’er thou art,

The worth which thou hast shown avenging him