His will ... conceive it caring for his will!

—Mantuans, the main of them, admiring still

How a mere singer, ugly, stunted, weak,

Had Montfort at completely (so to speak)

His fingers' ends; while past the praise-tide swept

To Montfort, either's share distinctly kept:

The true meed for true merit!—his abates

What is the world's recognition worth?

Into a sort he most repudiates,

And on them angrily he turns. Who were