V.

“But vain each sacrifice--each base compliance Still prompted France to urge ignobler claims, For Spain not yet had raised her proud defiance, And in Fernando’s youth reposed her aims. Fernando--he but gorged affronts and shames! The worshipped Heir of all her line of Kings His bannered Lion to a genet tames, Follows his aged sire to France, and flings Iberia’s crown to earth beneath the Usurper’s wings!