Love-letters from his wife who cannot write,

Love-letters in reply o' the priest—thank God!—

Who can write and confront his character

With this, and prove the false thing forged throughout:

Spitting whereat, he needs must spatter whom

But Guido's self?—that forged and falsified

One letter called Pompilia's, past dispute:

Then why not these to make sure still more sure?

So was the case concluded then and there:

Guido preferred his charges in due form,