To the least adroit and self-possessed o' the pair.

'Twas foolish Pietro and his wife saw first

The nobleman was penniless, and screamed

"We are cheated!"

Such unprofitable noise

Angers at all times: but when those who plague,

Do it from inside your own house and home,

Gnats which yourself have closed the curtain round,

Noise goes too near the brain and makes you mad.

The gnats say, Guido used the candle-flame