Were present to annul or to confirm,—

Richard, whose patience had outstayed its term,

Quitted Verona for the siege.

"And now

What glory may engird Sordello's brow

Through this? A month since at Oliero slunk

All that was Ecelin into a monk;

But how could Salinguerra so forget

His liege of thirty years as grudge even yet

One effort to recover him? He sent