And bade me render thanks by word of mouth,

Going that night to such a side o' the house

Where the small terrace overhangs a street

Blind and deserted, not the street in front:

Her husband being away, the surly patch,

At his villa of Vittiano.

"And you?"—I asked:

"What may you be?" "Count Guido's kind of maid—

Most of us have two functions in his house.

We all hate him, the lady suffers much,