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“ ‘He to whose arms thou gavest me to wife, his land defending when such foes invade, offers himself, o’erfeeble for the strife, to the hard mercies of the Moorish blade; if, Sire! thou deign not aid that all-dear life, me shalt thou see from out the kingdom fade, widowèd, wretched, doomed to lot obscure, sans realm, sans husband, e’en sans life secure.