In blood and blaze? (So hard to intercept
Sordello till his plain withdrawal!) Stepped
Salinguerra's part lapsing to Ecelin,
Then its new lord on Lombardy. I' the nick
Of time when Ecelin and Alberic
Closed with Taurello, come precisely news
That in Verona half the souls refuse
Allegiance to the Marquis and the Count—
Have cast them from a throne they bid him mount,
Their Podestà, through his ancestral worth.