Was head of an old noble house enough,

Not over-rich, you can't have everything,

But such a man as riches rub against,

Readily stick to,—one with a right to them

Born in the blood: 'twas in his very brow

Always to knit itself against the world,

Beforehand so, when that world stinted due

Service and suit: the world ducks and defers.

As such folks do, he had come up to Rome

To better his fortune, and, since many years,