Old Barret tells the story as Ancient Pistol would have done:—

“In Ulit’s time there regalized in Spain

One Roderick, king from the Gothians race’t;

Into whose secret heart with silent strain

Instretcht the ’sturber of hart pudike chast,

Him enamouravizing of a piece,

A piece by Nature quaintly symmetrized,

Enfayred with beauty as Helen fair of Greece:

Count Julian’s daughter of bed-wedlockized,

Ycleaped Caba; who in court surshined