Who swallowed such a tale nor strained a whit

Even at his wife's far-over-fifty years

Matching his sixty—and—under. Him she blessed;

And as for doing any detriment

To the veritable heir,—why, tell her first

Who was he? Which of all the hands held up

I' the crowd, one day would gather round their gate

Did she so wrong by intercepting thus

The ducat, spendthrift fortune thought to fling

For a scramble just to make the mob break shins?