Most like a lion raised from slumbering ease,

He cast his looks, fall grimly them among.

At length, he firmly knit what might appease

His brow; looked stedfastly and long

At one, till all their eyes with his eyes met alike

On fair Vitullia, who his heart did strike.

Vitullia fair, yet brown; as mixed together

As Art and Nature strove which was the purest.

So sweet her smilings were, a grace to either!