So said, she spurred at him amid the throng;
But, first -- "Defend thee, false Rogero!" -- cried.
"No more, if I have power, in spoil and wrong, Done to a virgin heart, shalt thou take pride."
Hearing that voice the hostile ranks among, He deems -- and truly deems -- he hears his bride;
Whose voice the youth remembers in such wise, That mid a thousand would he recognize.