The most to praise and the best to see,

Was the startling bell-tower Giotto raised:

But why did it more than startle me?

Giotto, how, with that soul of yours,

Could, you play me false who loved you so?

Some slights if a certain heart endures

Yet it feels, I would have your fellows know!

I' faith, I perceive not why I should care

To break a silence that suits them best,

But the thing grows somewhat hard to bear