(That 's for the Cardinal, and told, I think!)

Well, they bring back the company to Rome.

Says Guido, "By your leave, I fain would ask

How you found out 't was I who did the deed?

What put you on my trace, a foreigner,

Supposed in Arezzo,—and assuredly safe

Except for an oversight: who told you, pray?"

"Why, naturally your wife!" Down Guido drops

O' the horse he rode,—they have to steady and stay

At either side the brute that bore him bound,