Of God and the Blasphemer, ... impious prayer, ...
Most impious, when from unbelieving lips
The accursëd utterance came. Then Roderick’s heart
With indignation burnt, and then he long’d
To be a King again, that so, for Spain
Betray’d and his Redeemer thus renounced,
He might inflict due punishment, and make
These wretches feel his wrath. But when he saw
The daughters of the land, ... who, as they went
With cheerful step to church, were wont to shew