Henceforth and never Roman any more,

By treaty and engagement; thus it ran:

Pompilia's dowry for Pompilia's self

As a thing of course,—she paid her own expense;

No loss nor gain there: but the couple, you see,

They, for their part, turned over first of all

Their fortune in its rags and rottenness

To Guido, fusion and confusion, he

And his with them and theirs,—whatever rag

With coin residuary fell on floor