Came seldom to the festival or Acts,

Nor oft asserted his high presidence

O’er Frei Egidio—in craft or scorn,

It mattered not—for Frei Egidio

Would pluck him forth; no signet of the King

Could serve him here; the doctors of the Schools

Should learn how he, Fonseca, had been wronged.

With formal placards soon they smeared the walls

Of shrine and college, telling day and hour

And place, where Doutor Frei Egidio