And, after all, brought something back from Rome?

Would not a wife serve at Arezzo well

To light the dark house, lend a look of youth

To the mother's face grown meagre, left alone

And famished with the emptiness of hope,

Old Donna Beatrice? Wife you want

Would you play family-representative,

Carry you elder-brotherly, high and right

O'er what may prove the natural petulance

Of the third brother, younger, greedier still,