Upon the instant, Frei Egidio
In tones of thunder shouted o’er the hall,—
“Nego majorem!”—the scholastic world’s
Unmitigated insult! How would he,
Spain’s boasted theologian, reply
To Portugal’s? The Jesuits around
Suarez’s rostrum marvelled, whispered, turned,
And hid their faces, when they saw him bowed
Silent a moment, ere descending, calm,
He led them home across the jeering town.