How dangerous we grow in this extreme,

How truly formidable by despair.

Still, probabilities should have their weight:

The extreme chance is ours, but, that chance failing,

You win this battle. Wherefore say I this?

To be well apprehended when I add,

This danger absolutely comes from you.

Were you, who threaten thus, a Florentine ...

Lur. Sir, I am nearer Florence than her sons.

I can, and have perhaps obliged the State,