Pompilia and Caponsacchi met, in fine,

She at her window, he i' the street beneath,

And understood each other at first look.

All was determined and performed at once.

And on a certain April evening, late

I' the month, this girl of sixteen, bride and wife

Three years and over,—she who hitherto

Had never taken twenty steps in Rome

Beyond the church, pinned to her mother's gown,

Nor, in Arezzo, knew her way through street