Wo upon you in the day
Of your coming desolation!
Take good heed, that may avail;
But if not, the mourners wail.
VOCERO OF A MAIDEN UPON THE DEATH OF HER TWO BROTHERS WHO WERE SLAIN IN ONE DAY.
(Mixed dialect of either side of the mountains.)
(The sister sings.)
Oh! the bearing proud of Piero,
Oh! the boasting of Orazio—