The wife to her convent, brother Paolo

To the arms of brother Guido with the news

And this beside—his charge was countercharged;

The Comparini, his old brace of hates,

Were breathed and vigilant and venomous now—

Had shot a second bolt where the first stuck,

And followed up the pending dowry-suit

By a procedure should release the wife

From so much of the marriage-bond as barred

Escape when Guido turned the screw too much