With haggëd mien, and countenance like one

Crazed or bewilder’d. All who met him turn’d,

And wonder’d as he pass’d. One stopt him short.

Put alms into his hand, and then desired

In broken Gothic speech, the moon-struck man

To bless him. With a look of vacancy

Roderick received the alms; his wandering eye

Fell on the money, and the fallen King,

Seeing his own royal impress on the piece,

Broke out into a quick convulsive voice,