The Cardinal saw fit to dispense with him,

Ride with one plume the less; and off it dropped.

Guido thus left,—with a youth spent in vain

And not a penny in purse to show for it,—

Advised with Paolo, bent no doubt in chafe

The black brows somewhat formidably, growled

"Where is the good I came to get at Rome?

Where the repayment of the servitude

To a purple popinjay, whose feet I kiss,

Knowing his father wiped the shoes of mine?"