—"Later, at daybreak" ... "Caponsacchi came" ...

—"While you and all your household slept like death,

Drugged as your supper was with drowsy stuff" ...

—"And your own cousin Guillichini too—

Either or both entered your dwelling-place,

Plundered it at their pleasure, made prize of all,

Including your wife" ... —"Oh, your wife led the way,

Out of doors, on to the gate" ... —"But gates are shut,

In a decent town, to darkness and such deeds:

They climbed the wall—your lady must be lithe—