Meantime their wick swims in the sate broad bowl

O' the middle rank,—not raised a beacon's height

For wind to ravage, nor dropped till lamp graze ground

Like cresset, mudlarks poke now here now there,

Going their rounds to probe the ruts i' the road

Or fish the luck o' the puddle. Pietro's soul

Was satisfied when crony smirked, "No wine

Like Pietro's, and he drinks it every day!"

His wife's heart swelled her bodice, joyed its fill

When neighbors turned heads wistfully at church,