No, birth and breeding, and compassion too

Saved her such scandal. She was young, he thought,

Not privy to the treason, punished most

I' the proclamation of it; why make her

A party to the crime she suffered by?

Then the black eyes were now her very own,

Not any more Violante's: let her live,

Lose in a new air, under a new sun,

The taint of the imputed parentage

Truly or falsely, take no more the touch