So memorably, dwindle to a Guelf?

Be sure, in such delicious flattery steeped,

His inmost self at the out-portion peeped,

Thus occupied; then stole a glance at those

Appealed to, curious if her color rose

Or his lip moved, while he discreetly urged

The need of Lombardy becoming purged

At soonest of her barons; the poor part

Abandoned thus, missing the blood at heart

And spirit in brain, unseasonably off