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,