"Cast her off? Turn her naked out of doors?
Easily said! But still the action pends,
Still dowry, principal and interest,
Pietro's possessions, all I bargained for,—
Any good day, be but my friends alert,
May give them me if she continue mine.
Yet, keep her? Keep the puppet of my foes—
Her voice that lisps me back their curse—her eye
They lend their leer of triumph to—her lip
I touch and taste their very filth upon?"