O' the kennel! Dowry? Dust o' the street! Naught more

Naught less, naught else but—oh—ah—assuredly

A Franceschini and my very wife!

Now take this charge as you will, for false or true,—

This charge, preferred before your very selves

Who judge me now,—I pray you, adjudge again,

Classing it with the cheats or with the lies,

By which category I suffer most!

But of their reckoning, theirs who dealt with me

In either fashion,—I reserve my word,