Her folly, and redress the injury done.

Whereof was the disastrous consequence,

That though indisputably clear the case

(For thirteen years are not so large a lapse,

And still six witnesses survived in Rome

To prove the truth o' the tale)—yet, patent wrong

Seemed Guido's; the first cheat had chanced on him:

Here was the pity that, deciding right,

Those who began the wrong would gain the prize.

Guido pronounced the story one long lie