While gallant youths pressed round on horse or foot
Holding his robe or stirrup through the town—
The Catedratico da Vespera.
But now this little shrivelled man sent out
From Salamanca,—Philip’s paragon!—
To rule Coimbra in theology!—
One of Loyola’s strange and restless band
In the Collegio de Jesus,—reproach
To every gorgeous doctor in the halls.
’Twas true he hid away within his house,