If, goaded, she broke out in full revolt,

Followed her parents i' the face o' the world,

Branded as runaway, not castaway,

Self-sentenced and self-punished in the act?

So should the loathed form and detested face

Launch themselves into hell and there be lost

While he looked o'er the brink with folded arms;

So should the heaped-up shames go shuddering back

O' the head o' the heapers, Pietro and his wife,

And bury in the breakage three at once: