Or is even this the end? Can I stop here?

You, lady, with the woman's stand apart,

The heart to see with, past man's brain and eyes,

... I cannot fathom why you should destroy

The unoffending one, you call your friend—

Still, lessoned by the good examples here

Of friendship, 'tis but natural I ask—

Had you a further aim, in aught you urged,

Than your friend's profit—in all those instances

Of perfidy, all Florence wrought of wrong—