Elsewhere! But, though his speech was worthy scoff,

Good-humored Salinguerra, famed for tact

And tongue, who, careless of his phrase, ne'er lacked

The right phrase, and harangued Honorius dumb

At his accession,—looked as all fell plumb

To purpose and himself found interest

In every point his new instructor pressed

—Left playing with the rescript's white wax seal

To scrutinize Sordello head and heel.

He means to yield assent sure? No, alas!