For they fling, whoever has a mind,

Stones at me for my year's misdeeds.

Thus I entered, and thus I go!

In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.

"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe

Me?"—God might question; now instead,

'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

MY LAST DUCHESS

FERRARA

In Dramatic Lyrics this was entitled Italy, and grouped with Count Gismond under the head Italy and France.