Of pure resentment for this worse than bad,
That then Violante, feeling conscience prick,
Confessed her substitution of the child
Whence all the harm fell,—and that Pietro first
Bethought him of advantage to himself
I' the deed, as part revenge, part remedy
For all miscalculation in the pact.
On the other hand, "Not so!" Guido retorts—
"I am the wronged, solely, from first to last,
Who gave the dignity I engaged to give,