"Have you confessed yourself, brother," said the Templar, "that you peril your life so frankly?" "I am fitter to meet death than thou art," answered the Disinherited Knight.

"'Tis thine," quoth Beltane, "who am I to gainsay thee?" "Messire, 'tis this; that thou wilt take me to serve thee, to go beside thee, sharing thy woes and perils henceforth."

At length Almagro, and Alphonso's train, Each peril past, unite on Cusco's plain: Capac, who now beheld with anxious woe, Th' increasing numbers of the powerful foe, Resolves to pierce beneath the shroud of night 5 The hostile camp, and brave the vent'rous fight; Tho' weak the wrong'd Peruvians arrowy showers, To the dire weapons stern Iberia pours.

But they were grafted together, with all the force of legislative wisdom; not that one might be dominant and the other oppressed, but that both should bend to form an arch of common strength, able to resist the weight of such invasions as had perpetually periled, and often crushed, their separate independence.

His project of empire was so lofty and comprehensive that he appeared to shrink from any collision that could even remotely peril its ultimate success.